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

Author/Contributor(s):	Geoghegan, Thomas
Publisher:	New Press
Date:	10/04/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy, especially the German version. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses? Social democracy doesn't sound too bad. Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? reveals where you might have been happier--or at least had time off to be unhappy properly. It explains why Americans should pay attention to Germany, where ordinary people can work three hundred to four hundred hours a year less than we do and still have one of the most competitive economies in the world.