Article: The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream.(Book review)

The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream Author: Jeremy Rifkin Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, New York [c] 2004 434 pages

The "American dream" stresses individualism and free market capitalism, but allows minimum social support for failure. For two centuries the "American dream" has been the envy of much of the world. But since the 1960s, increasing numbers of Americans no longer believe that their government, culture and quality of life are the best in the world, and success seems out of reach.

Jeremy Rifkin notes that the American dream originated in Protestant Reformation theology and ...

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