Beyond our means [electronic resource] : why America spends while the world saves / Sheldon Garon.

By: Garon, Sheldon MContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012Description: 475 p. : illISBN: 9781400839407 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Saving and investment | Thriftiness -- United States | Thriftiness -- Asia | Capital movementsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 339.4/3 LOC classification: HC79.S3 | G37 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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"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.

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