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International Monetary Fund (IMF), 90, 101–3, 111, 162–64, 176, 211, 287, 297

International Price Comparison, 124

International Telecommunications Union, 219

Internet, 155, 195, 245, 260, 273, 287–89, 291, 296

invisible hand, 209

iPods, 195

Ipsos Mori poll, 66, 247

Ireland, 172

Iron Curtain, 183, 239, 252

Italy, 95, 97–98, 146, 152

Jackson, Michael, 198

Japan, 42; debt of, 102; equal income distribution in, 125; fairness and, 125–26, 140–41; inequality and, 126; lost decade of, 102; posterity and, 91–92, 95, 97–98, 102; savings rates in, 280; trust and, 169, 175; voter turnout and, 175

Jazz Age, 127

Jefferson, Thomas, 184, 253–54

Johns, Helen, 41

Johnson, Simon, 256–57

Johnson, Steven, 187

Justice (Sandel), 237

Kahneman, Daniel, 215

Kamarck, Elaine, 247–48

Kay, John, 139, 245–46, 257

Kennedy School of Government, 247

Keynes, John Maynard, 101, 183–84, 190

Kleinwort, Dresdner, 87

knowledge economy, 191

Kobayashi, Keiichiro, 102

Korea, 126

Krugman, Paul, 100–103, 127–29, 232, 282

Kyoto Protocol, 62–64

labor: absorbing work and, 10, 48–49; call centers and, 131, 133, 161; creativity and, 166–68, 205–7; downsizing and, 175, 246, 255; global cities and, 165–70; globalization and, 131, 149 (see also globalization); human capital and, 81, 203–4, 282; measurement and, 189–99; migration and, 108–10, 172; outsourcing and, 159, 161, 175, 219, 287; pensions and, 4, 25, 85–86, 90, 92–100, 103–7, 111–13, 174–76, 191, 203, 243, 269–71, 275, 280, 286, 289–90, 293; Protestant work ethic and, 13–14, 236; retirement age and, 94, 97–99, 106–7, 112; skilled, 132–33, 159, 166–67, 276; specialization and, 160–61; technology and, 131–33; unemployment and, 3, 10, 43, 51, 56, 89, 107, 169, 207, 212–13, 243; unions and, 15, 51, 224, 249; unskilled, 132–33, 158, 172, 193; well-being and, 137–39; Whitehall Studies and, 139

lack of control, 47, 138–39

Lawson, Neal, 26

Layard, Richard, 31, 39–40, 43

Lehman Brothers, 1, 85, 87–88, 145, 211, 275–76

Leipzig marches, 239

Leviathan (Hobbes), 114

light bulbs, 59–61

Linux, 205

Lipsky, John, 102, 111

List, John, 117

literacy, 36

Live Nation, 197

living standards, 78–79, 106, 113, 136, 151, 162, 190, 194, 267

lobbyists, 15, 71, 247, 257, 276, 285, 289, 296

Lolapaloozza, 197

Louis Vuitton, 150

Luxury Fever (Frank), 40

Mackenzie, Donald, 221

Madonna, 194

Malthusianism, 95

Mama Group, 197

managerial competence, 2, 16, 150, 209, 259

Manzi, Jim, 231–32

Mao Zedong, 10

markets: asymmetric information and, 17, 186, 214, 219–20, 229, 248, 254, 262–63; black, 225; boom–bust cycles and, 4, 22, 28, 93, 102, 106–9, 136–37, 145, 147, 213, 222–23, 233, 277, 280, 283; capitalism and, 182, 230–38 (see also capitalism); culture and, 230–38; declining population and, 86, 89–90, 95–99, 103, 113; democracy and, 230–38; deregulation and, 7, 212; evidence–based policy and, 233–34; exchange advantage and, 214; externalities and, 15, 70, 80, 211, 228–29, 249, 254; failures of, 226–30, 240–44, 257, 262–63, 267, 289–90; Fama hypothesis and, 221–22; flaws of, 215–16; fractal character of, 134; free market model and, 14, 121, 129, 182–83, 210–11, 218–24, 232, 240, 243, 251; fundamentalism for, 213; gift economy and, 205–7; interbank, 1–2; international trade and, 110, 148, 159, 163; invisible hand and, 209; mathematical models of, 214; merits of, 211–17; missing, 229; moral, 210, 213, 220–25, 230–33; music, 194–98; network effects and, 253, 258; options, 222; as organizing economy, 218; performativity and, 224–25; Protestant work ethic and, 13–14, 236; public choice theory and, 220, 242–45; public domain and, 196; rational calculation and, 214–15; satellite accounts and, 81; shorting of, 86; social, 217–20; stability issues and, 2–4, 25, 70, 101, 124, 135, 140–41, 174, 176, 218, 296; trilemma of, 230–38; values and, 209–10 (see also values); winner take all, 134

Marx, Karl, 14, 28, 131, 221

McDonalds, 27

McKitrick, Ross, 68

Mean Fiddler Group, 197

Measuring Australia’s Progress, 274

measurement: asymmetric information and, 17, 186, 214, 219–20,