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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rifkin, Jeremy

Titel

The European dream: how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

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Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Compares American beliefs in the individual and personal responsibility with European Union emphasis on collective responsibility and global consciousness, and examines what makes a great people and constitutes a better way of life. Contents: NEW LESSONS FROM THE OLD WORLD; The slow death of the American dream; The new land of opportunity; The quiet economic miracle; THE MAKING OF THE MODERN AGE; Space, time, and modernity; Creating the individual; Inventing the ideology of property; Forging capitalist markets and nation-states; THE COMING GLOBAL ERA; 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.