Linkagogo Archive 1: Transatlantic Debate

Book Review of Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
Book review: Posted 31 January 2010 on Folkpolitics by the Liberal Arts Dude. (Provides an excellent overview of Europe's Promise.)The reviewer found Hill's book fascinating and recommended that it deserves to be read widely in the United States. More specifically, he suggested that American public policy makers, politicians, pundits, and those who have power to craft public opinion and policy should read it and take a long hard look at American institutions, economic practices, policy-making, etc. and ask themselves –"Are we doing the best job that we can do and getting the results we intended?"

Europe's Promise by Steven Hill
Book review: Posted 10 April 2010 - Will blog for food by John. An excellent book review! So don’t be put off by the blog’s title or the length of the review. John’s style of writing and knowledge of the subject makes this a fascinating read. He agrees with Hill’s assessment of the current situation and goes on to make a number of thought provoking comparisons between the policies of U.S. and European governments (Norway in particular).

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Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico: US Needs a National Energy Policy like Europe’s
Article: 17 May 2010 – Social Europe Journal. Every day that the massive black plume off the Louisiana coast sprays into the sea is a reminder of how much the United States has failed to transition to a modern energy regime. Given the stakes over global warming, Europe has emerged as ‘the indispensable nation’, while the United States, the largest per capita polluter in the world, continues to fiddle as the earth burns.

Hill Proposes European Economic Structure for U.S.
Article: 1 April 2011 By Alex Kessler. On March 30, Hill’s U.S. book tour took him to Georgia Tech to speak on behalf of the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) for the IMPACT Speaker Series. Hill’s arguments boil down to adopting social programs such as free education and healthcare to support families and workers; the less people spend on necessities, the more they can spend commercially, circulating money.

Germany Speaks Out
Article: 12 November 2010 – New York Times. Also published as: Merkel, Germany, Overthrow Obama, U.S., at G-20. Following America’s catalytic role in bringing the global economy to the brink of disaster, followed by Obama’s weakened political position after the Nov. 2 mid-term elections, the U.S. is now losing the global argument over what is the best development model for the 21st century. At the Group of 20 meeting in Seoul Germany spoke out. Let’s hope Obama and Geithner were listening because the world is no longer automatically following America’s lead.

America's Failed Model for the World

Article: September 16, 2009 - The Guardian. As Europeans watch the United States flailing about over something as basic as healthcare, they are reminded once again of the impotent US response following Hurricane Katrina. As one European put it...

The Myth of Europe's High Taxes
Article: 23 February 2010 – On the Commons. This myth is busted! The truth is, Hill points out, that when all the supports and services Europeans and Americans receive are listed on one side of a ledger and the amount of taxes and any additional out-of-pocket fees they pay are listed on the other, it turns out that Americans pay out as much as Europeans – but receive a lot less in return.

French Protesters: 'Where are you Americans?'
Blog: How's Europe Doing - posted: 23 Oct 2010 - The Washington Monthly. During a protest against proposed retirement age legislation in

France, Hill talks to some of the young protesters on the streets in Paris who wonder why young Americans, frustrated and angry over US government policies, are not out protesting like the French.

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