Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Professor
Princeton, New Jersey
garon@Princeton.EDU
Office:
(609) 258-4993
Bio/Research
A specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese history, Sheldon Garon also writes transnational/global history that spotlights the flow of ideas and institutions between Asia, Europe, and the United States. His transnational history, Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves (2...
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Bio/Research
A specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese history, Sheldon Garon also writes transnational/global history that spotlights the flow of ideas and institutions between Asia, Europe, and the United States. His transnational history, Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves (2012), examines the connected histories of saving and spending over the past two centuries in Japan, other Asian nations, Europe, and America. The book has received global attention from media, nonprofit groups, international organizations, and financial institutions because it offers recommendations on what Americans might learn from European and East Asian nations whose public policies have vigorously encouraged citizens to save and avoid “overindebtedness.” Garon has been active in policy debates to increase lower-income households’ access to financial institutions and to reintroduce postal banking in the United States. He also coedited The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (2006).
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