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The Economics of Enough_ How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters - Diane Coyle [157]

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Figure 8. Migrant agricultural worker’s family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Photo by Dorothea Lange. 128

Figure 9. Pyramid of Capitalist System, issued by Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich in 1911. Published by International Publishing, Cleveland, OH. 132

Figure 10. A view of Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing point for foreigners visiting East Berlin. Photo by Helga T. H. Mellmann. 148

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INDEX


Addams, Jane, 131

AEG Live, 197

Affluent Society, The (Galbraith), 190, 230–31

aging population: baby boom generation and, 4, 106, 109; demographic implosion and, 95–100; measurement and, 206; policy recommendations for, 267, 280, 287, 296; posterity and, 89–90, 94–95, 105–6, 109, 112–13; retirement age and, 94, 97–99, 106–7, 112

Alesina, Alberto, 128, 135–36, 171

All Consuming: How Shopping Got Us into This Mess and How We Can Find Our Way Out (Lawson), 26

altruism, 48, 118–22

André, Carl, 27

anomie, 48, 51

anxiety, 1, 25, 47–48, 136–38, 149, 174

Aristotle, 50

Arrow, Kenneth, 81–82, 220, 236–37, 310n25

Arthur Anderson, 145

asymmetric information, 17; institutions and, 248, 254, 262–63; measurement and, 186; values and, 214, 219–20, 229

Australia, 12, 271; Bureau of Statistics and, 274; diversity and, 172; fairness and, 126, 130, 143; measurement and, 188, 202, 206–7; time surveys and, 206–8; trust and, 140

Austria, 239

Axelrod, Robert, 118–19

baby boom generation, 4, 106, 109

bailouts: banks and, 1, 88, 91, 99–100, 145, 267; stimulus packages and, 91, 100–3, 111

Bank of England, 1–2, 174

bankruptcy, 289; Lehman Brothers and, 1, 85, 87–88, 145, 211, 275–76; Northern Rock and, 1, 146; posterity and, 87; trust and, 145–46

banks, 2; bailouts and, 1, 88, 91, 99–100, 145, 267; Baker on, 244; bonus culture of, 87–88, 115, 139, 143–44, 193, 221, 223, 277–78, 295; capital

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