The narcissism of minor differences: how America and Europe are alike : an essay in numbers
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1. Verfasser: Baldwin, Peter (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press ©2009
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The economy -- Health care -- The rest of the welfare state -- Crime -- More broadly -- Education and the higher pursuits -- The environment -- Civil society -- Nationalism -- Religion and science -- Assimilation -- Lumping and splitting -- A meeting of the Twain? -- Separated at birth? -- The post-facto state -- How the West was one -- Acorn and oak
There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. According to the American right, Europeans are lazy, defeatist and irreligious, while Americans are entrepreneurial, optimistic, and pious. And according to Europeans, America is harsh, dominated by the market, crime-ridden, violent, and sharp-elbowed. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two continents really are. Drawing on th
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0199739528
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