Beyond our means why America spends while the world saves /

Main Author: Garon, Sheldon M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10503244
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300 |a 475 p. :  |b ill. 
500 |a "A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Thriftiness  |z Asia. 
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