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

by Rifkin, Jeremy (Author)

• ISBN13: 9781585424351
• ISBN10: 1585424358
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-18
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe.

Author Biography

Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The End of Work, The Biotech Century, The Age of Access, and The Hydrogen Economy. He is the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
NEW LESSONS FROM THE OLD WORLD
1. The Slow Death of the American Dream	11	(26)
2. The New Land of Opportunity	37	(21)
3. The Quiet Economic Miracle	58	(31)
THE MAKING OF THE MODERN AGE
4. Space, Time, and Modernity	89	(30)
5. Creating the Individual	119	(14)
6. Inventing the Ideology of Property	133	(28)
7. Forging Capitalist Markets and Nation-States	161	(20)
THE COMING GLOBAL ERA
8. Network Commerce in a Globalized Economy	181	(16)
9. The "United States" of Europe	197	(17)
10. Government Without a Center	214	(20)
11. Romancing the Civil Society	234	(13)
12. The Immigrant Dilemma	247	(20)
13. Unity in Diversity	267	(16)
14. Waging Peace	283	(32)
15. A Second Enlightenment	315	(43)
16. Universalizing the European Dream	358	(29)
Notes	387	(30)
Bibliography	417	(8)
Index	425