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American Economic Review, 314, 323
American Economics Association, 149
American Electric Power company, 67
American Indians, 71
American Journal of Public Health, 23
American Lung Association, 62
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Obama stimulus bill) (2009), 185, 214–15
Angola, 316
Annan, Kofi, 289
antitrust laws, 74
Apple Computer, 132
Arab Human Development Report, 320
Arab League, 320
Argentina, 263–65, 266, 315–16
Asia, 31, 126
sweatshops in, 24–25, 292, 295, 296–97
Asian “tigers,” 291, 304, 309, 317
AT Kearney, 292
Atlanta, Ga., homeless in, 135
Atlantic, The, 44, 110
Australia, 48, 205
Austria, 94
automobile industry, 16, 50, 289
automobiles, social costs of, xxii Autrey, Wesley, 8–9
“Back from the Brink” (C. Romer), 247
Bali, 279, 293
Bangkok, factory work in, 295
Bangladesh, 282, 290–91, 297
Bank of England, 251
banks:
central, 238, 244, 246, 251, 259, 261, 264, 267, 269
failures of, 247
Federal Reserve’s control over amount of money available to, 230–33
in financial crisis, 210
loans and, 245
money issued by, 236
Barro, Robert, 242, 309, 318
barter system, 266
Bartlett, Bruce, 100

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Bartlett, Bruce, 100
basic research, 76, 89
basketball, 28
basket of goods, 256
Bear Stearns, 43, 211, 248
Becker, Gary, xviii, 5–6, 92, 111, 139, 140, 145, 187, 309
behavioral economics, xxiv–xxv, 26–29, 80–82
behavioral economists, 173, 206
behavioral growth funds, 174
Beijing, globalization and, 294
Belgium, colonization by, 306
Bennett, William, 206–7
Berlin Wall, 3–4, 36, 265, 333
Bernanke, Ben, xxv, 248
Fed role of, 224, 225, 248, 249, 330
Bert Weinman Ford Dealership, 58
Bezos, Jeff, 49, 78
bidding processes, 86
Big Mac Index, 256–57, 268
birth control, Soviet planning and, 88
birth rate, 12, 146
black markets, 22, 31
see also underground economy black rhinoceros, 31–35
“Black Wednesday,” 252
Blagojevich, Rod, 195
Blanchflower, David, 205–6
Blank, Rebecca, 103
“blind” auditions, for symphony orchestras, xxii–xxiii Boeing, 148
Bolivia, starting businesses in, 95
bonds, 156, 160–63, 176, 231–32, 233, 251
book club, of Oprah Winfrey, 125
Booth School of Business, 101–2, 183, 192
Borg, Bjorn, 51
Boston Red Sox, 133
Bottom Billion, The (Collier), 319
“bounded rationality,” 26
Bradley, Bill, 186
brain damage, and investing, 173
brain science, 9
branding, 123–26
monopoly and, 125
trust and, 123–24
Brazil, 218, 264
Bretton Woods, N.H., 274–75
bribery, 95, 308
“bridge to nowhere,” 196
Brooks, David, xxv
Brown, Gordon, vaccine plan of, 313
Brunei, sultan of, 132, 157
budget deficit/surplus, 100, 101–2, 219–20, 315
Buffett, Warren, 169, 175

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Buffett, Warren, 169, 175
Burger King, 41
Burns, Arthur, 244
Burundi, 33
Bush, George H. W., 89, 100, 198, 244
Bush, George W., 89, 100, 101, 152
Bush administration (George W. Bush), 224, 246, 285
business cycles, 200, 213, 330–31
see also recessions
BusinessWeek, 168, 175
BYOI (bring your own infrastructure), 68
Cabrini Green, 14–15
“Cadillac lawyers,” 91
California, 62
campaign finance reform, 197
Canada, 61, 95
cancellation bonds, 161
capital, 228
“dead,” 306
excess, 157–58
as finite amount, 220
forms of, 140
interest as rent on, 157–58, 176, 230, 246
raising of, 156–57
capital controls, 268–69
capital gains tax, 99, 241
capitalism:
communism defeated by, 29
creative destruction and, 49, 191–92
democracy and, 333–34
“punch line” of, 4
unfairness and, 29