The Myth of American Individualism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARRY ALAN SHAIN
Keyword(s):  
American Individualism

Exporting American Individualism

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Olivier Zunz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Success Story ◽  
American Individualism

The exporting of goods and capital has been Japan's much heralded success story of the postwar global order, much to the dismay of Americans who had been the prime builders of the Pax Americana on which the world's economy now rests. But despite today's headlines, U.S.-Japanese relations are not just about trade. This paper is about the exporting not of goods but of ideas and the connection between ideology and economic policy. I suggest that the Japanese's peculiar response to American ideas on individualism has helped them develop an ultimately successful economic alternative to American democracy: a non-individualistic capitalism.

Herbert Hoover and American Individualism

1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-394
Author(s):  
A.K. Sita
Keyword(s):  
American Individualism
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