Beyond our means why America spends while the world saves /
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2012.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The origins of saving in the Western world
- Organizing thrift in the age of nation-states
- America the exceptional
- Japanese traditions of diligence and thrift
- Saving for the new Japan
- Mobilizing for the Great War
- Save now, buy later : World War II and beyond
- "Luxury is the enemy" : Japan in peace and war
- Postwar Japan's national salvation
- Exporting thrift, or the myth of "Asian values"
- "There is money. Spend it" : America since 1945
- Keep on saving? : questions for the twenty-first century.