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Figure 2. Water-carrier in front of a grocery shop in Luxor, Egypt. Copyright © Vladimir Wrangel. Courtesy of Shutterstock. 34
Figure 3. Beijing traffic jam. Copyright © Michel Stevelmans. Courtesy of Shutterstock. 64
Figure 4. Flood water in the Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, England. Copyright © Christopher Elwell. Courtesy of Shutterstock. 75
Figure 5. Little girl coloring. Copyright © jcjgphotography. Courtesy of Shutterstock. 96
Figure 6. African child locked behind a metallic gate. Copyright © Lucian Coman. Courtesy of Shutterstock. 110
Figure 7. Two orangutans grooming each other. Copyright © Norma Cornes. Courtesy of Shutterstock. 120
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
Figure 11. Babel Revisited. Copyright © 2004 Julee Holcombe. 167
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Figure 13. Green field with tree and double rainbow. Copyright © Ozerov Alexander. Courtesy of Shutterstock. 199
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Figure 16. People atop the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate on November 9, 1989. Copyright © Sue Ream. 241
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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