| A Review of Arno Tausch's Book "The City on the Hill" |
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bridges vol. 10, June 2006 / Book & Film Reviews by Francesco Duina The City on the Hill: The Latin Americanization of Europe and the Lost Competition to the USA by Arno Tausch. New York: Rozenberg Publishers, 2006, 185 pp. 
With his usual zest for data and statistics, Arno Tausch presents
us in this new book with a deluge of evidence in support of an unusual
and - if correct - terrifying thesis: Europe is at a crossroads, more
likely to become a second-tier player in the global economy than to
catch up with the dynamic United States or Japan. He opens, for
instance, by showing that in 1820 the gross domestic product per capita
in Western Europe was 102 percent of that of North America and
Australia. At the end of the 20th century, the figure was 68 percent.
Japan's performance relative to North America and Australia has
increased from 56 percent to 78 percent. Other indicators, such as
unemployment and the United Nations' measures for poverty or fatal work
accidents, point in the same direction.
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