I haven't found this mythical EU/US difference in overall attitudes, either in history or the present, except on specific issues. Europeans generally have higher taxes and better social-welfare systems, but not particularly different attitudes besides that. Both pro-business market-oriented views and skeptical-of-business populist views have long been common in both places. Heck, many American founding fathers fought in the French Revolution, and some (like Thomas Paine) wrote some of the more famous "left-wing" documents left by that revolution. And Denmark has some of today's more successful multinational businesses (Maersk, Lego, Carlsberg), which are quite popular domestically. Yet somehow Europeans generally assume that Americans are all Randians, and Americans assume that Europeans are all Marxists.
