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accessed 08/08/2010). Data on the increasing economic clout of developing countries can be found in OECD Development Center, “Economy: Developing Countries Set to Account for Nearly 60% of World GDP by 2030, According to New Estimates,” June 16, 2010 (at www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3343,en_2649_33959_45467980_1_1_1_1,00.html, accessed 07/19/2010). The potential impact of recession on the mind-set of Americans is discussed in Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo, “Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy,” NBER Working Paper, September 2009. The British Treasury’s response to Keynes’s suggestions during the Great Depression is in Anatole Kaletsky, Capitalism 4.0 (New York: Public Affairs, 2010), p. 50. And Alan Greenspan’s shock was recorded in Brian Knowlton and Michael Grynbaum, “Greenspan ‘Shocked’ That Free Markets Are Flawed,” New York Times, October 23, 2008.

Index

ABC

Abell, O. J.

abortion (feticide)

Abu Dhabi

Aché

adaptation

adultery

advertising

news and

television

Africa

polygamy in

premarital sex in

slave trade in

Agent Orange

agriculture

food prices and

future of

illegal immigrants and

productivity in

slavery and

Agriculture Department, U.S.

airlines

air pollution

airports, Hare Krishna in

Aktion T-4

alcohol

altruism

Amazon.com

American Airlines

American Association of Retired People

American Indians

American Society for Reproductive Medicine

Amway

Anabaptists

Anderson, Chris

anemia

animal welfare movements

apes, bonobo

Apple

Aquinas, Thomas

Archimedes of Syracuse

Argentina

Ariely, Dan

aristocracy

Aristotle

Arno River

Asia

financial crisis in

AT&T

auctions

Augustine, Saint

Australia

auto industry

Babylonian code

Badalone, Il (barge)

Bangladesh

banks, bankers

earnings of

regulation of

Bardot, Brigitte

BarranquillasBest.com

Barton, Joe

baseball

basketball games

beauty, wages and

Becker, Gary

Beckham, David

Beecher, Thomas K.

behavioral economics

Belgium, Belgians

Benedict, Pope

benefits

Benny, Jack

Berlioz, Hector

Bernanke, Ben

Betzig, Laura

Bhutan

Bible

bicycles

BigChampagne

bike helmets

birds

birth-control pills

Black Death

blacks, workplace fatalities of

Blinder, Alan

body

Book-of-the-Month Club

books

Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique

Bourdieu, Pierre

BP

Bracero program

Brand, Stewart

Brazil

culture in

Pelé in

bride prices

Brooklyn

Brown, Dan

Brunelleschi, Filippo

bubbles

Buffett, Warren

Burkina Faso

Burundi, happiness in

Bush, George W.

business

Caen

California

California, University of (Berkeley)

campaign contributions

Canada

culture in

singles vs. married in

cancer

Canon

Cantor Fitzgerald

capital

human

capitalism

carbon emissions

“Care for Girls” initiative

cars

fuel efficiency of

see also auto industry

Cashat-Cruz, Miguel

Catholic Church

cell phones

CEOs, earnings of

charity

Chiang Kai-shek

Chicago, University of

child mortality

children

bike helmets for

education of

faith and

female

happiness and

women’s rearing of

China

future of

genetic variation in

income in

missing girls in

pollution in

workforce in

Chisasibi Cree

chocolate

Christianity

Christmas Carol, A (Dickens)

Chrysler

cigarettes

Citigroup

Clean Air Act (1970)

Clear Skies Act

climate change

CNN

Coca-Cola

coffee

Colombia

colonial America, work in

competition

of airlines

for managerial talent

between newspapers and Web

of patented drugs vs. generics

restraints on

computer chips

computers

comScore

concerts

Congo

Congress, U.S.

campaign-finance legislation and

copyright and

Greenspan’s testimony to

lobbying of

regulation and

see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Consumer Product Safety Commission

consumers, consumption

free things and

contraception

Cook, James

Copernicus, Nicolaus

copyright

corporations

wages and

Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act (1883)

corruption

politics and

cotton

coyote

credit

crime

Crompton, Samuel

Cruise, Tom

Cuba

culture

affordable traits and

politics