index 223
financial crisis, 5 – 6 , 121
fishing, 15 , 169 n 34
foot- binding, 172 n 4
foreign aid, 91 , 92 , 99
France, 73 – 76 , 98 , 139 – 42 , 148 – 51
functionalist approach, 7 , 23 , 35
game- theoretical models, 161
Gatsby effect, 22 , 51 , 64 , 71 , 73 , 86 , 129 , 164
Germany, 35 , 61 – 62 , 148 – 51
gift economy, 106 – 10
gigantism, 34
Gilpin, Robert, 6
Global Demonstration Effects, 172 n 6
Goffman, Erving, 44
Gordon, Donald, 111
Greece, 11 , 116 , 152
Greenberg, Daniel, 126
Haiti, 101 , 108
Halley, Edmond, 137
handicap principle, 14 , 102
Harkness, William, 150 , 151
hierarchical systems, 44 , 114 , 168 n 21 ;
anarchy and, 8 ; benefits in, 9 ; class and
(see class distinctions); Cold War and,
150 ; definition, 9 ; English School
and, 168 n 18 ; feudalism, 49 ; gifts and (see
gift economy); indexes, 50 ; Maslow and,
9 – 10 ; middle powers, 113 – 15 ; naval (see
naval power); prestige and, 5 , 6 , 8 , 28 ,
168 n 21 , 186 n 1 (see also prestige); pro-
sociality and, 100 , 102 , 119 ; ranking and,
36 – 37 ; signaling and, 13 ; social, 2 , 8 , 13 ,
22 , 27 , 28 , 42 , 171 n 49 , 197 ; symbols and,
36 – 37 , 50 , 100. See also specific topics
Hillel, Rabbi, 90
Hobbes, Thomas, 4
honor, 18 , 169 n 25
Hook paradox, 160 – 61 , 162
Hoover, Herbert, 132 , 133
Hubble Space Telescope, 125
Human Genome Project, 135
Hume, David, 170 n 38
Hurd, Ian, 36
IDE. See International Demonstration
Effects
identity, 11 – 12 , 169 n 28. See also prestige;
and specific topics
inconspicuous consumer, 26 , 28 , 170 n 41
independence, assumption of, 20
indexes: hierarchy and, 36 , 37 ; power and,
36 , 45 , 46 – 48 , 110 ; signals and, 110 ,
171 n 47 , 174 n 16 ; status symbols and, 47 ,
48 , 50 , 172 n 2
India, 34 , 43 , 76 – 78 , 99 , 177 n 21
Indonesia, 108
institutionalism, 47
International Demonstration Effects (IDE),
Veblen and, 172 n 6
international hierarchy, 28
International Monetary Fund, 42
international relations, 35 ; anarchy and, 8 ;
Big Science and (see Big Science; and
specific countries, topics); class and,
42 – 46 (see also class distinctions); con-
spicuous consumption and, 1 – 32 , 100 ,
157 (see also conspicuous consumption;
and specific topics, countries); coopera-
tion in, 182 n 2 (see also prosociality);
deception and, 171 n 47 ; demand curves
and, 20 ; foreign aid and, 91 , 92 , 99 ;
future research, 165 ; game- theoretical
analyses and, 161 ; hierarchies in, 28 (see
also hierarchical systems); independence
and, 20 ; invidious comparison and, 49 ;
national security and, 29 – 30 ; natural
restrictions and, 52 ; positional conflict
and, 52 – 53 ; power and, 48 , 112 , 168 n 13 ;
prestige and, 3 , 4 – 13 , 29 , 157 , 163 , 172 n 2
(see also prestige); primary utility and,
30 ; prosociality and, 90 – 121 (see also
prosociality; and specific countries);
rationalist analysis, 161 (see also ratio-
nalist approach); reciprocity and, 107 ;
secondary utility and, 18 ; signals and,
171 n 47 ; status symbols and, 4 ; utility in,
18 , 159 ; war (see wars); welfare and, 92
intrinsic restrictions, 51
invidious comparison: carriers and, 57 , 86 ,
89 ; class and, 44 ; conspicuous consump-
tion and, 33 (see also conspicuous con-
sumption); DAC and, 116 ; frog meta-
phor, 172 n 8 ; international relations and,
49 ; middle powers and, 113 ; pecuniary
emulation and, 22 – 23 , 163 (see also pe-
cuniary emulation); prosociality and,
100 ; status and, 27 , 28
Iraq, 85