Beyond Our Means : : Why America Spends While the World Saves / / Sheldon Garon.
If the financial crisis has taught us anything, it is that Americans save too little, spend too much, and borrow excessively. What can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? Beyond Our Means tells for the first time...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (488 p.) :; 10 color illus. 37 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. The Origins of Saving in the Western World
- 2. Organizing Thrift in the Age of Nation-States
- 3. America the Exceptional
- 4. Japanese Traditions of Diligence and Thrift
- 5. Saving for the New Japan
- 6. Mobilizing for the Great War
- 7. Save Now, Buy Later: World War II and Beyond
- 8. "Luxury is the Enemy": Japan in Peace and War
- 9. Postwar Japan's National Salvation
- 10. Exporting Thrift, or the Myth of "Asian Values"
- 11. "There IS Money. Spend It": America since 1945
- 12. Keep on Saving? Questions for the Twenty-first Century
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index