The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream

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Penguin, 18 Agu 2005 - 448 halaman
The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe.

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A Nation of Dreamers
A Chosen People
The Withering of the American Work Ethic
Getting Something for Nothing
American CivicMindedness
Moving on Up
The SinkorSwim Mentality
Who Is More Productive?
From Class Politics to Cultural Politics
The EU as a Land of Immigrants
Repopulating the Old World
Cultural Diasporas and MultiAllegiances
Living in Multiple Spaces and in Deep Time
Shared Vulnerabilities and Global Consciousness
From the Age of Reason to the Age of Empathy
Enforcing Universal Human Rights

Live to Work or Work to Live?
What About Jobs?
The Birth of a New Kind of Economic Superpower
Measuring Success
Quality of Life
Americans Are from Mars Europeans Are from Venus
Europes Obsession with Space and Time
Colonizing Nature
Desacralizing Time
The American Contribution to Space and Time
Civilizing Human Nature
The Birth of Privacy
The Making of the Bourgeoisie
The Medieval View of Property
The Protestant Reformation of Property
The Metaphysics of Private Property
Mine vs Thine
Americans Love Affair with Property
The Collision of Property and Democracy
The Struggle for Free Markets
The Rise of the NationState
Consolidating Power
The Last True Believers
The Birth of a New Economic System
Cooperative Commerce
Belongings vs Belonging
What Is Europe?
Forging a Union
The New EU Constitution
The Feedback Revolution
Process Politics
Network Governance
Sharing Power
The Forgotten Sector
Making Room for a New Political Partner
Finding Common Ground Between Universal Human Rights and Local Cultural Identity
The Politics of Empathy
Taking a Life
Going It Alone
Divergent Views of the World
Europes Dream of Perpetual Peace
A New Kind of Military
Taking Responsibility for Its Own Defense
Questioning Unbridled Scientific Inquiry
Burden of Proof
The Precautionary Principle
Systems Thinking
Walking the Walk
The Rights of Animals
Reuniting Ecosystems
Exporting the EU Model
Cold Evil and Universal Ethics
The Third Stage of Human Consciousness
A Global Persona
The American and European Dreams
THE SLOW DEATH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
THE NEW LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
THE QUIET ECONOMIC MIRACLE
SPACE TIME AND MODERNITY
CREATING THE INDIVIDUAL
INVENTING THE IDEOLOGY OF PROPERTY
FORGING CAPITALIST MARKETS AND NATIONSTATES
NETWORK COMMERCE IN A GLOBALIZED ECONOMY
THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE
GOVERNMENT WITHOUT A CENTER
ROMANCING THE CIVIL SOCIETY
THE IMMIGRANT DILEMMA
UNITY IN DIVERSITY
WAGING PEACE
A SECOND ENLIGHTENMENT
UNIVERSALIZING THE EUROPEAN DREAM
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One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work. A fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program, he is president of The Foundation on Economic Trends in Bethesda, MD.

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