Thomas Geoghegan

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? (eBook, ePUB)

How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy, especially the German version. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses? Social democracy doesn't sound too bad. Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? reveals where you might have been happier-or at least had time off to be unhappy properly. It explains why Americans should pay attention to Germany, where ordinary people can work three hundred to four hundred hours a year less than we do and still have one of the most competitive economies in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781595587893
• Artikelnr.: 39932170

Autorenporträt

Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books, including See You in Court, In America's Court, and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Which Side Are You On? (all available from The New Press). He has written for The Nation, the New York Times, and Harper's. He lives in Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: I'm No "European Socialist"
Part One: Which Side of Paradise?
1. I Know No Europeans
2. Where You'd Be Happier-Or, the Story of Isabel and Barbara
3. I'm Sorry I Picked the Germans
Part Two: Berlin Diary
Preface
4. Germany Is Dark
5. Clash of Civilizations
6. After the Krise (2009)
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Index