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64.
See J. Kagel, “Economics According to the Rats (and Pigeons Too): What Have We Learned and What Can We Hope to Learn?” in ed. A. Roth,
Laboratory Experimentation in Economics: Six Points of View
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 99–130.
65.
Fernand Braudel,
The Perspective of the World,
Vol. 3,
Civilization and Capitalism: 15th–18th Century
(New York: Harper and Row, 1982).
Index66.
Karl Marx,
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
(New York: International Publishers, 1970), 158.
Abreu, José Antonio,
293
Adams, Henry,
64
Adams, John,
272
division of labor and,
198
Industrial Revolution and,
141
protectionism and,
194
airline disasters,
60
–61
Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Prince,
145
American Public Health Association,
58
Ames, Lord,
279
Anderson, Perry,
281
Aristotle,
213
AT&T,
31
Awakening Slave
(Michelangelo sculpture),
15
Bach, Johann Sebastian,
290
Bagehot, Walter,
72
–73
Bankers, The
(Mayer),
37
Bank for International Settlements,
42
Bartlett, Eric,
293
–94
Bayer CropScience Institute plant explosion,
59
Bechtel corporation,
57
Becker, Gary,
305
Bentham, Jeremy,
175
Bernstein, Jared,
51
Bhopal disaster,
59
Bhutan, kingdom of,
216
–17
Biden, Joseph,
51
Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model,
302
Blake, William,
32
Braudel, Fernand,
311
Bretton Woods agreements,
144
American Civil War and,
67
class warfare in,
190
colonialist policies,
151
disciplining of labor in,
53
empire of,
198
landlords versus manufacturers in,
126
opium wars against China,
139
supervisory workers in,
254
.
See also
Scotland
British Association for the Advancement of Science,
72
,
74
,
129
British Factory Act (1833),
126
–27
Brown, John,
126
Bruni, Luigino,
214
Buchanan, James,
81
–82
economic crisis and,
265
on public education spending,
249
rhetoric of freedom and,
272
Cannan, Edwin,
171
cannery industry,
92
–93
access to,
142
Federal Reserve and,
44
GDP and,
211
mobility of,
144
productivity and,
130
railroads and,
64
as social relation,
223
.
See also
human capital
brewing conflict of nineteenth century,
63
–66
working conditions and,
96
.
See also
class divisions and conflict
bureaucracy and,
226
culture and,
311
depicted as harmonious system,
71
dys-functionality of,
52
economists critical of,
16
emergence from feudalism,
294
as eternal system,
271
exploitation and,
86
guard labor and,
256
in historical perspective,
273
inefficiency of,
15
invisible hand metaphor and,
10
iron cage metaphor and,
23
legitimacy of authority and,
36
organization of production by,
9
“penny capitalism,”
141
–42
Smith’s kindly picture of,
151
social democracy and,
181
stages in transition to,
158
Capital
(Marx),
66
“captains of industry,”
12
Carlisle, Lord,
171
Carlyle, Alexander,
167
Carney, Steve,
246
Carnot, Sadi,
248
cartels,
68
cash registers,
259
–60
corporate control and,
229
education of working class and,
114
leisure activities of,
300
stock market and,
230
Wal-Mart,
30
.
See also
corporations
“Character and Qualifications of an Honest Merchant, The” (anonymous),
213
Cheney, Richard,
245
Cheung, Steven,
71
conservative perspective of,
45
economics department,
98
effects of poverty on,
52
excessive working hours of parents and,
124
failed education system and,
248
–49
Chile, economy of,
99
Circuit City,
232
Clapham, John H.,
162
Clark, John Bates,
81
destructiveness of,
225
meritocracy and,
276
–80
Clinton, Bill,
132
Coats, Robert,
163
colonialism,
151
Commercial and Financial Chronicle,
134