Beyond Our Means : Why America Spends While the World Saves /

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"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 firs...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garon, Sheldon M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Saving and investment.
Thriftiness > United States.
Thriftiness > Asia.
Capital movements.
Sens de l'économie > États-Unis.
Sens de l'économie > Asie.
Mouvements de capitaux.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Budgeting.
Capital movements
Saving and investment
Thriftiness
Asia
United States
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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