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Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World resources

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Index Adam Smith Center (Poland), 16 and resources, 358–59; subsidies to, 84–85; advertising, 17, 293, 294, 415–16 and technology, 53, 277; U.S., 27–28, 44, 85 Afghanistan, 45, 193, 305, 354, 372, 406, 407 air travel, 124–25, 149, 160, 393, 408, 417 Africa: anti-Americanism in, 226; and China, Albania, 137, 142, 231 62, 144, 231, 279; climate in, 75, 76, 180; Albright, Madeleine, 405 colonialism in, 149, 308; currencies in, 117, Alexander the Great, 111 118, 201, 413, 431n19; debt in, 192, 193; Alexandria, 52 democracy in, 168, 303, 307; development Algeria, 149 in, 38, 136, 281, 290, 301, 315; early Allende, Salvador, 208–9 civilizations of, 51; and E.U., 31; American Enterprise Institute (U.S.), 16, 174 extinctions in, 176; fi lm in, 29, 60, 427n4; Amin, Idi, 303 future of, 29–30, 74, 345, 408; GDP in, Amnesty International, 356 58–59, 60, 67, 130–31, 231; and globalization, Amoussou, Sylvestre, 29 102, 131; governments in, 242, 304; HDI Andorra, 168 in, 163, 165, 166; health in, 159, 160, 161; Andropov, Yuri, 211 incomes in, 51, 52, 130, 137, 141, 144; infant Angola, 142, 164, 171, 193, 372, 379 mortality in, 55, 436n22; Internet in, 105, Antikythera Mechanism, 57, 340 142, 402; investment in, 211, 346; life Arab countries: culture of, 56, 57, 316; expectancy in, 55, 152, 376; and migration, development in, 63, 75, 289; and the 29, 83, 84, 379, 409; military in, 406; and future, 334, 378; and globalization, 102; Millennium Development Goals, 275, 276; policy in, 308; regional groups of, 354, NRI of, 142; oil in, 359, 361; population 439n12. See also Islamic countries; Middle growth in, 370; poverty in, 70, 145–52; East; particular countries regional groups in, 354, 439nn9,10; Aral Sea, 76 regression in, 63; stagnation in, 64, 132, Argentina, 76, 192, 226; democracy in, 168, 173, 277; SWB of, 270; technology in, 289, 398; 306; development in, 65, 129, 166, 313, 314; water shortages in, 416. See also particular fi nancial crisis in, 98; and Mercosur, 89; countries socialism in, 228 African Americans, 223 Aristotle, 57 The African Queen (fi lm), 27 Armenia, 132, 135, 373 Afrique Paradis (fi lm), 29, 60 Armstrong, Louis, 30 aging populations, 6, 370, 375–77, 416 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian agriculture: beginnings of, 47–48; and Nations), 354, 438n5 capitalism, 44; and climate, 74, 76; Asia: debt in, 193; democracy in, 168; collectivization of, 5; and economic development in, 52, 62, 64, 135, 163, 289; growth, 277, 283, 284; employment in, 55; diseases in, 160; in the future, 74, 408, and intellectual property rights, 297–98; 413; GDP in, 58, 59; income in, 51, 130, 137;

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