Beyond our means why America spends while the world saves /
Garon, Sheldon M.
Beyond our means why America spends while the world saves / [electronic resource] : Sheldon Garon. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012. - 475 p. : ill.
"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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781400839407 (electronic bk.)
Saving and investment.
Thriftiness--United States.
Thriftiness--Asia.
Capital movements.
Electronic books.
HC79.S3 / G37 2012
339.4/3
Beyond our means why America spends while the world saves / [electronic resource] : Sheldon Garon. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012. - 475 p. : ill.
"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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781400839407 (electronic bk.)
Saving and investment.
Thriftiness--United States.
Thriftiness--Asia.
Capital movements.
Electronic books.
HC79.S3 / G37 2012
339.4/3