Europe's promise
Subtitle: why the European way is the best hope in an insecure age
By: Steven Hill
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780520248571; 9780520261372
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of the European way; title: The capitalist engine that huffed and puffed; title: Europe's secret advantage : economic democracy; title: Family values, European style; title: The myth of the overtaxed European and other modern fables; title: The economic crash of 2008-9 : Wall Street capitalism vs. social capitalism; title: The European way of health; title: La Sante d'abord : the formal health care system; title: Windmills, tides, and solar besides : the European way of energy; title: Revolution on wheels : the European way of transportation; title: The reluctant superpower : transatlantic rupture and the post-9/11 world; title: The European way of foreign policy, put to the test; title: The legacy of Luther and Cromwell : political democracy in Europe; title: Consensus building through dynamic democracy; title: Sticky glue, social contracts, and fulcrum institutions; title: The challenges of immigration and integration; title: A European civil rights movement arises: sort of; title: The dilemma of population decline : "where are all the children?"