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23%OFFSheldon Garon - Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves - 9780691159584 - V9780691159584
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Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves

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Description for Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves Paperback. What can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? This title tells how other nations aggressively encouraged their citizens to save by means of special savings institutions and savings campaigns. Num Pages: 488 pages, 10 color illus. 37 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 143 x 32. Weight in Grams: 756.
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 how other nations aggressively encouraged their citizens to save by means of special savings institutions and savings campaigns. The U.S. government, meanwhile, promoted mass consumption and reliance on credit, culminating in the global financial meltdown. Many economists believe people save according to universally rational calculations, saving the most in ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691159584
SKU
V9780691159584
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About Sheldon Garon
Sheldon Garon is the Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (Princeton) and coeditor of The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West.

Reviews for Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves
"Garon makes a powerful case that savings isn't about culture. It's policy... You'll think about savings policies differently after [you] pick up a copy of Beyond Our Means."
Christopher Farrell, economics editor of Marketplace Money "Professor Garon offers brilliant scholarship, engaging reading, and some practical insights for dealing with our current financial crisis worldwide. An insightful and provocative book that ... ... Read more

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