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Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life
Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life (Paperback)
Description
Geoghegan explains the appeal of "boring" Germany, where workers sit as directors on the big corporate boards and ordinary people have six weeks off and retire with pensions like golden parachutes. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses . . . the German version of "European socialism" doesn't sound too bad. 336 pp. 10,000 print.
About the Author
Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books, including the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Which Side Are You On?, In America’s Court, and See You in Court (all available from The New Press). He has written for the Nation, the New York Times, and Harper’s and lives in Chicago.
Praise for Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life…
[C]lever and immensely appealing.
—The Nation
Witty and ironic—and to the point. . . . [A] necessary primer.
—Financial Times
Geoghegan’s passing comments are entertaining and his acerbic wit fun as he buttresses his case with hard facts. . . . [P]olitical economics with a human face.
—Chicago Tribune
[T]ruly eye-opening.
—St. Petersburg Times
Geoghegan . . . once again entertains and instructs us. And by showing that a more humane form of capitalism is not only possible but actually succeeding in the heart of Europe, he also gives us hope.
—Alternet
