Title: Becoming Europe : economic decline, culture, and how America can avoid a European future /
Authors: Gregg, Samuel, 1969-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Europe Economic conditions; Europe Economic policy.; Europe Social conditions; Europe Social policy.; United States Economic policy; United States Social policy
Abstract: Argues against America's economic life becoming more like Europe's and warns that if Americans continue down this path they will suffer an overburdened welfare state, a government that controls half of the economy, and high taxation.
Contents: We're becoming like Europe -- Free markets, guilds, and the state -- Towards the European social model -- A very imperfect union -- Insiders and outsiders -- Soft despotism -- Deficits, debt, and deception -- Globalization: the last frontier -- How America can have a non-European future.