TY - BOOK AU - Garon,Sheldon M. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Beyond our means: why America spends while the world saves AV - HC79.S3 G37 2012 U1 - 339.4/3 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - Saving and investment KW - Thriftiness KW - United States KW - Asia KW - Capital movements KW - Electronic books N1 - "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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=784530 ER -