The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)

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(^638) INDEX
armaments, 53, 55, 63, 89, 98, 105, 143, 229,
253-55, 276, 278-79, 285, 293, 298,
303^, 323, 331, 339-10, 358,
400^01,408,449
Asia, East, 475-80, 491, 518
astrolabes, 47, 87
astronomy, 134, 181-84, 204, 285, 341
Atahualpa, 107, 108, 151
Atlantic Ocean, 79-86
Atlantic system, 120-22
Aungier, Gerald, 153
Austen, Jane, 224
Austin, Herbert, 462
Australia, 294
Austria, 245
automobiles, 247, 306, 408, 461-64, 468-69,
470,472,474,476,479-90, 496
Auzout, Adrien, 204
Azores, 67, 69,79, 151»
Aztec empire, 102-7, 110, 122, 433»
Babar, Emperor of India, 153, 156
Bacon, Reginald, 198-99
Bacon, Roger, 202
Baeyer, A., 290
Balazs, Etienne, 56-57
Balzac, Honoré de, 389
Bangkok, 479-80
Bangladesh, 14
Bank of England, 257, 444
Bank of France, 262-63
banks, 256, 261-64, 268, 275, 494, 523
Banque Seillière, 262, 272
Barakat, Halim, 412
Barbados, 115, 119,292
BASF, 290-91
Batavia, 143, 144-15, 170
Batavian Republic, 148
Baxter, Richard, 175
Belgium, 247, 280, 429, 446, 448
Bengal, 153-54, 159-61, 163, 165-67
Benin, 505-6
Berbers, 64-65
Bernier, François, 157
Berthoud, Louis, 229
Bessemer, Henry, 190
Bhopal accident, 498
Bible, 14, 18, 34, 52, 139, 178, 182, 524
Biencourt, Charles marquis de, 222
Bismarck, Otto von, 429, 450
Black, Joseph, 206
Black Death, 40
Bleichrôder, Gerson, 429
block printing, 51-52
Boer War, 429, 438-39, 465
Boigues, Louis, 270-71, 273
Boisguillebert, Pierre Le Pesant, seigneur de,
233,234
Bombay, 152, 170, 227-28
Book of Changes, 339
Boone, Daniel, 253
Borah, Woodrow, 62-63
Boulton, Matthew, 277-78, 281
Bowring, John, 315, 452, 521
Brahe, Tycho, 210, 211
Bramah, Joseph, 303»
Braudel, Fernand, 148, 170
Brazil, 114, 134, 249, 294, 295, 315, 329,
332-34,510-11
Brearley, Mary, 135
British Leyland, 464
Bruckner, Pascal, 75
Brunei, Marc Isambard, 303»
Bruno, Giordano, 181, 201
Bubble Act (1720), 257
buccaneers, 113 «-14», 115
Buenos Aires, 315-16, 317, 324
Burke, Edmund, 19, 32
Burma, 433
Busbecq, Ghiselin de, 51
Byzantine empire, 397
Cabriada, Juan de, 180-81
caisses, 262-63
Calcutta, 152, 159, 160, 161, 166
calico, 121, 154, 207, 405
Calvinism, 35, 136, 139-10, 174-79
cameras, 472
Camoëns, Luis da, 132
Camus, Albert, 440
Canada:
economy of, 294-95
exports of, 294, 296
geography of, 296
canals, 214-15, 236, 257, 265, 295, 342
Canary Islands, 67, 68, 70, 79, 93, 422
Candolle, Alphonse de, 176
cannibalism, 103^1
cannon,339-40, 401
Cape Bojador, 79, 87
Cape of Storms, 87
Cape Verde Islands, 67, 69
capital, 178, 209, 379
accumulation of, 152, 175-79, 256, 257,
274-75, 442
agricultural, 42
availability of, 227, 443-14, 447
division of, 281
foreign, 325-26, 328, 408, 444, 446, 448,
476, 493, 507, 523
human, see labor
international, 260, 269
labor vs., 171,178,225,274,281,297,
382
mobility of, 475-76
as production factor, 293
return on, 143
from slavery, 119-22

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