| Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life Contributor(s): Geoghegan, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1595587063 ISBN-13: 9781595587060 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 330.126 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (1.00 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |