Linkagogo Archive 1: US Vs Europe

Showing posts with label US Vs Europe. Show all posts

Stephen Hill Linkography: Deutschland

Amazing Germany - Declining Unemployment - How Do They Do It?

Blog: How's Europe Doing – posted 13 Nov 2010 - The Washington Monthly. In Germany, manufacturing still dominates finance. German capitalism didn’t succumb to the financialization that swept the United States and Britain in the 1980s’ - though Germany’s banks and financial sector did get snared in the Wall Street web.

Don't Scorn Germany and Japan; Learn From Them
Article: 29 July 2010 - Los Angeles Times. The global marketplace has become tumultuous, so when we find a bright spot, one would think it deserves a mention: Germany and Japan! Japan's economy has been and remains successful. So is Germany's. They have reached an economic steady state in which they don't need roaring growth rates to provide for their people. But for the economic Cassandras, apparently it doesn't matter if people's needs are being met; what matters is whether their theories and equations balance.

Germany Leads Europe's Wind and Solar
Energy Revolution
Article: 28 October 2008 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine.

While Bush and other world leaders pitted the environment and energy innovation against the economy and loss of jobs, Europe has discovered that greater energy efficiency actually is good for their economy and businesses. Their efforts led to the rise of new technologies, industries and created tens of thousands of jobs.

Angela Merkel is Getting it Right
Article: 04 October 2010 - IP Global (German Council on Foreign Relations). Chancellor Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed sweeping financial regulatory changes. They warned the Obama administration not to block their attempts to crack down on hedge funds and derivatives, corrupt rating agencies, outrageous bank bonuses and more. Would US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have dithered even more had he not been pushed – shoved, by the Europeans, led by Merkel?

<< Back

ELSEWHERE IN LINKAGOGO

Stephen Hill Linkography: Income & Spending

Author Steven Hill Compares the U.S. Tax System With Those of European Countries

Interview (audio): 13 April 2010, host Andrew Stelzer – National Radio Project. As part of the “Tax the Rich, Help Save America” program broadcasted by the NRP, listen to Hill describe in detail the difference in tax benefits and burdens in Europe and the US.

The Myth of Europe's High Taxes
Article: 23 February 2010 – On the Commons. So a thorough analysis would need to create a ledger in which all the supports and services Europeans and Americans receive are listed on one side and the amount of taxes and any additional out-of-pocket fees they pay are listed on the other. When you sum up the total balance sheet, it turns out that Americans pay out as much as Europeans – but we receive a lot less for our money.

The Myth Of The Overtaxed Europeans And Other Modern Fables
Blog: How's Europe Doing - posted 19 November 2010 - The Washington Monthly. Child care in the United States costs more than $12,000 annually for a family with two children. In some countries in Europe, child care is free. In others, they pay $1000-$2000 per year, depending on their income. So they are paying at most only one-sixth of what Americans are paying, and the quality is far superior.

<< Back

ELSEWHERE IN LINKAGOGO

Stephen Hill Linkography: Features

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).

<< Back

ELSEWHERE IN LINKAGOGO

Stephen Hill Linkography: Eco-Friendly

Captain Nemo’s Dream: How Europe Draws Power
From the Sea
Article: 23 February 2010 - The Globalist. While wind and solar power are the most common forms of renewable energy deployed in Europe, other energy forms are gradually being utilized and show impressive potential. One of these is power derived from the sea. Hill discusses how the EU is developing this unconventional alternative energy source. Europe is experimenting with all sorts of renewable energy and transportation options that previously had limited appeal. They are viewing this as a new industrial revolution.

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on
Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and
Other American Fantasies
Interview: 18 October 2010 - host Alissa Bohling for Truthout. Some of Europe's governments have managed to keep special interest groups at bay thus facilitating the use of carbon trading markets to lower greenhouse emissions. Another political advantage for Europeans is that they have proportional representation. So they can have a Green Party that gets elected and is in the legislature, pushing their agenda, to the point where environmental policy put forward by the Greens ten and 15 years ago is now mainstream German or Swedish or French or whatever politics.

Europe Needs a Public Relations Makeover
Article: 16 July 2010 - Social Europe Journal. Hill suggests that Europe should start bragging about itself because there is much to brag about. Europe is the leading innovator in preparing for global warming. Jobs are not pitted against the environment! There is widespread deployment of conservation practices and “green design” in everything from automobiles, buildings, light bulbs and toilets that help Europeans reduce their ecological footprint. Additionally, Europe’s green industry of windmills, solar panels and trains, has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs and is exporting its innovations to the world.

<< Back

ELSEWHERE IN LINKAGOGO

Stephen Hill Linkography: Renewables

Climate Change, Health, Economy: Three European Tips For Obama
Article: 19 January 2009 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. Europe recently displayed its global leadership by enacting its 20-20-20 plan: agreeing to cut human-produced carbon emissions that contribute to global warming by at least 20% by 2020. They will do this by ramping up renewable energy technologies to 20% of its energy usage, and by enacting the world’s most ambitious carbon trading program. Displaying an important principle that will be crucial to any global climate agreement, the richest European nations agreed to contribute a greater share toward combating climate change than the poorer European nations.

Angela Merkel is Getting it Right
Article: 12 November 2010 - IP Global. Also posted as: Angela Merkel: The World’s Most Valuable Leader - 18 August 2010, Social Europe Journal. Germany and Europe have quietly stepped into the role of global trailblazer and Germany continues to have the largest solar and wind power industry in the world. When European unity was in doubt on this issue, Chancellor Merkel corralled an agreement from the heads of all 27 European Union nations to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent and make renewable energy sources account for 20 percent of the European Union’s energy supply by 2020.

<< Back

ELSEWHERE IN LINKAGOGO