The European Dream (76 page)

medieval view of

mine versus thine

private property philosophy

and Protestant Reformation

Protestant Reformation

and private property

Protestant work ethic

Protocol No.

Public housing

Public Land Act

Puritans

Putnam, Robert

Putting-out system

Quality of life

Racism

Raffarin, Jean-Pierre

Railroad

RAND Institute

Random House

Reagan, Ronald

Reality shows

Reason

Recessions

Rees, Sir Martin

Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) system

Religion

of Americans versus Europeans

in not-for-profit sector

of Pilgrims

Renaissance

art of

Re-participation

Rice, Condoleezza

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Rippe, Richard D.

Risk-prevention rules

Risk-taking

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rosemount, Henry

Rosenthal, Justine

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rowe, Jonathan

Royal Ahold

Royal Dutch/Shell

Ruberti, Antonio

Ruggie, John Gerard

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russell, Bertrand

Salamon, Lester

Say, Jean-Baptiste

Schengen Agreement

Scherbov, Sergei

Schlatter, Richard

Schools

Schumann, Robert

Science

of Enlightenment

new view of

Scientific management

Scientific method

Scruton, Roger

Self-interest

Sense of entitlement

Shakespeare, William

Single European Act (SEA)

Sink-or-swim mentality

Siviy, Steven

Slavery

Slovakia

Small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMEs)

Smith, Adam

Smith, Anthony

Smith, Gordon

Smith, Robert

Snow, John, Dr.

The Social Contract
(Rousseau)

Socialism

Socrates (educational program)

Sombart, Werner

South Africa

Soviet Union

Soysal, Yasemin

Space

Spain

Church property sale in

home ownership in

house square footage in

Madrid bombings in

Spatial planning

Species extinctions

Sport-utility vehicles (SUVs)

Stock market

Subsidiarity Principle

Suburbs

Suicide rates

Sustainable farming

Sweden

Switzerland

Systems thinking

Tawney, Richard Henry

Taylor, Frederick W.

Telecommunications industry

Telegraph

The Tempest
(Shakespeare)

Terrorists

Test Ban Treaty

Texas

Textile

guilds

industry

Thatcher, Margaret

Third stage of human consciousness

Thompson, Grahame

Tichi, Cecelia

Time

credits

deep

desacralization of

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Toll stations

Town growth

Toxic Substances Control Act (TOSCA)

Transborder peace parks

Trans-European Networks (TENs)

Transnational companies

Transportation

Travel

Treaty of Amsterdam

Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Rome

Troplong, Raymond-Théodore

Turner, Bryan

Turner, Frederick Jackson

Two Treatises on Civil Government
(Locke)

United Kingdom

and autonomous European Command

foxhunting in

house square footage in

organic agriculture in

United Kingdon

immigrants in

United Kingstom

BSE outbreak in

United Nations

Charter

Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Security Council

United States

Americans as “chosen people,”

capitalism and patriotism in

challenge to precautionary principle

Constitution versus EU Constitution

contribution to space and time

cultural camps in

and death penalty

deficit in

foreign aid

foreign policy of

and frontier mentality

individualism in

jobs in

natural resources of

and private property

productivity in

quality of life in

religion in

workweek in

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal ethics

Universal human rights

enforcing

Upward mobility

Urry, John

Usury

Utilitarianism

Utopian society

Uzzi, Brian

Vail, John

Vernadsky, Vladimir

Vietnam War

Violence

Vodafone

Volunteerism

Voter turnout

Vulnerabilities

Wage growth

Wallstrom, Margot

Washington (state)

Wealth redistribution

Weber, Max

Western Europe

Western mind

Whitehead, Alfred North

White-Jacket: or, the World in a Man-of-War
(Melville)

Wiener, Norbert

Winthrop, John

Wolf, Martin

Woodcock, George

Working poor

World Economic Forum

World Health Organization (WHO)

World Trade Organization (WTO)

World Values Survey

World War I

World War II

Yarjani, Javad

Youth program

Zapatero, José Luís Rodríguez

Zergour, Mustapha

Zerubavel, Eviatar

Zinsmeister, Karl

 

 

 

 

 

 

JEREMY RIFKIN
is an internationally renowned social critic and the best-selling author of
The End of Work, The Biotech Century, The Age of Access,
and
The Hydrogen Economy,
each of which has been translated into more than fifteen languages. He is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C. Since 1994, Mr. Rifkin has been a fellow at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program, where he lectures to CEOs and senior corporate management from around the world on new trends in science and technology and their impacts on the global economy, society, and the environment. He is also an adviser to heads of state and government officials in a number of countries. Rifkin currently serves as an adviser to Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission, the governing body of the European Union. His monthly column on global issues appears in many of Europe’s leading newspapers and magazines. He lives with his wife, Carol Grunewald, in Washington, D.C.