Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life (Hardcover)

from TadAD

I'd give him a B+ for relevant and intriguing ideas, a C- for writing ability, and I'd fail him for his capacity to make a logical argument (even at times when I think he might be right). Let's start with the first. Geoghegan's basic premise is that the European (most specifically, the German) st...

from ex_ottoyuhr

This book was written by a Boomer; so of course there are many places where he fails to see the point, in a way that would be indefensible in anyone else in history. Does he not notice the synergy between "you're American, you want to compete" and the American rejection of European-style social d...

from adendate

The book begins as a refreshing read in the line of the new "growth-skeptic" genre that attempts to challenge the idea that GDP is the best conceptualisation we have of progress. The author is a union lawyer and so offeres a somewhat unique perspective that I haven't found in other books. He trie...

from jcook818

The book reads simply and is certainly geared to a centre-left American Democrat perspective. This being the case, it simplifies most arguments that it makes into very simple statements, making heavier use on countless anecdotes and personal experiences than on citable facts and statistics. One m...