344
Numbers in bold refer
to a person's main entry.
A
Acemog ̆ lu, Daron 206, 207,
328–29
Adenauer, Konrad 184, 222
Africa 314, 328, 329
Aghion, Philippe 232
agriculture 39, 60, 128, 152,
178
derivatives 263–64
physiocrats on 19, 42–44, 62, 65
Akerlof, George 156, 275 , 302
information economics 61, 208, 260
275–75, 281
Alesina, Alberto 261, 326–27
Al-Ghazali 67
Allais, Maurice 120, 195
on decision making 184, 185,
195
and utility theory 114, 162, 266
Amsden, Alice 261, 284, 285,
338
antitrust laws 70, 73, 97
Aquinas, Thomas 18, 20, 23
Ariely, Dan 266
Aristotle 18, 21, 22, 62, 94, 114
Arkwright, Richard 50
Arrhenius, Svante 306
Arrow, Kenneth 185, 209 , 232
on equilibrium 120, 123, 212–13
on free markets 56, 60, 130,
220
general possibility 184, 214–15
on market information 208–09,
281
Arthur, Brian 278
Asian Tigers 85, 243, 261, 282–87
Atkinson, Anthony 64
auction theory 294–95
Austrian School 60, 88, 89, 97, 146–47
153, 174–77
Axelrod, Robert 273, 338
B
Bachelier, Louis 262
Bagehot, Walter 26
balance of payments 19, 252–53, 262, 323
Banik, Dan 256
banks 26–29, 152, 299, 331
banking crises 28, 174, 177, 209,
233, 293, 300–01
central banks 33, 260, 276–77, 320
runs on 316–21
Banto, Yamagata 334
Barone, Enrico 144, 174
Barro, Robert 76, 77, 164, 276, 339
barter 18, 24, 25, 75, 166
Bauer, Peter 190
Baumol, William 94, 96
Becher, Johann 90
Becker, Gary 52, 53, 171
behavioral economics 53, 194, 195,
248, 260, 261, 272
irrationality 61, 266–69
Bentham, Jeremy 51, 214
Berle, Adolf 152, 168–69
Bernanke, Ben 322–25
Bernoulli, Daniel 63, 162
Bertrand, Joseph 91, 335
Beveridge, William 304
bills of exchange 18, 28
Binmore, Kenneth 283, 338
Black, Fischer 262, 264
Bodin, Jean 30–32
Böhm, Franz 222
Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von 63, 106,
147, 335
Boisguilbert, Pierre de 37, 42, 57, 334
Bolton, Patrick 232
boom and bust 78–79, 330–31
Booth, Charles 140
Borda, Jean-Charles de 214
Borio, Claudio 322
borrowing and debt 76–77
Brentano, Lujo 335
Bresnahan, Timothy 313
Bretton Woods 153, 184, 187, 231,
252, 262, 290BRIC nations 261
Brickman, Phillip 218
Britain 51, 105, 179, 184, 186, 202,
223, 285, 320
British School 147
bubbles 18, 38, 88, 98–99, 272, 300
bull and bear markets 79
Burke, Edmund 51
Bush, George W. 270
business cycles 51, 78, 153, 298
butterfly effect 278C
Cagan, Philip 244
Cairnes, John Elliott 126, 128
Calomiris, Charles 321
Campbell, Donald 218
Cantillon, Richard 42, 56
Cantoni, Davide 138
capital 59–60, 230
Capital Asset Pricing Model
(CAPM) 262
capitalism 20, 51, 88, 89
Marx and 102–05, 107, 261
cartels 70–73, 88
central banks 33, 260, 276–77, 320
Chamberlin, Edward 180
Chandler, Alfred 132, 337
Chang, Ha-Joon 339
chaos theory 261, 278, 279
Chenery, Hollis 178
Cheung, James 137
Chicago School 185, 260
Child, Josiah 19, 38
Chile 201, 260
China 85, 105, 184, 185, 223, 243,
287, 323–25
Christensen, Clayton M. 148, 149
Clark, Colin 36, 178
classical economics 50–51, 88
climate change 261, 306–09
Coase, Ronald 137
coins 18, 24, 25
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 334INDEX