THE EUROPEAN DREAM
How Europe’s vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream
By Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin, £15.99, $25.95

It is tempting to dismiss Jeremy Rifkin as yet another practitioner of "futurology". As president of the Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends, he has recently proclaimed the promise of hydrogen power, the disappearance of work, the sanctity of animal rights and the advent of a global network society. Now comes the European Dream.