Beyond our means [electronic resource] : why America spends while the world saves / Sheldon Garon.
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BookPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.Description: 475 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 339.4/3 23
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"A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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