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defi vs. capital account, East Timor, 372 cits: current account
183, 186; and debt, 183, 184, 191; and eBay, 86
development, 267; and ends vs. means, 323; economic development, 256–92; balanced,
and income distribution, 258; in Latin 280–83, 314, 343–47; barriers to, 276–78,
America, 208; and Poland, 219; and 290, 385; change and continuity in, 36–38;
universal currency, 121; U.S., 220 and critical thinking, 56–57; and culture,
democracy: in Africa, 168, 303, 307; Athenian, 57, 65–66, 67, 163, 265, 279, 286, 290,
112; in China, 168, 173, 229, 231–32, 233, 310–318, 335, 347–350; and democracy,
234, 345; consensus in, 291; and 168–69, 170, 173, 306–10; and ends vs.
development, 168–69, 170, 173, 306–10; means, 323–24; factors in, 30, 38, 62–63,
exporting, 31, 169–70, 305, 306; in the 266–68, 285–86; future, 343–47; history of,
future, 413–14; and GDP, 166–67, 168–69, 40–77; and human history, 46–53; and
173; global, 348, 349, 357; and information, income distribution, 138–39, 173–74, 222,
307–9; and ISI, 270; measures of, 166–74; 258–61, 280, 281, 282, 292; limits on,
and migration, 380; and privatization of 343–47, 358, 383; lobby for, 335–36;
war, 407; readiness for, 303–4; in Russia, long-term, 62–67, 233, 259; measurement
239, 240, 374; and special interests, 239, of, 133–37, 157–66, 265–73, 412; and
305–6, 307; U.S., 304–5; vs. elections, Millennium Development Goals, 276;
224, 280, 303, 305–8, 310, 314, 367; vs. mumbo-jumbo about, 4–6; and path
enlightened authoritarianism, 304, dependence, 35–36; post-nuclear war, 404;
307; vs. representative government, premodern, 53–55; and resource barrier,
112–13 277–78; and social development, 59, 71,
Democracy for a Safer World (2005 conference; 157–66, 261–66, 268, 348; and the state, 23,
Club de Madrid), 405 242–48; and terrorism, 405–6; theories of,
Democratic Party (U.S.), 18, 222, 369 38, 283–84, 286–89, 319–22, 325; turning
Deng Xiaoping, 60, 229, 320 points in, 43–46; vs. growth, 261–65,
Denmark, 43, 136, 142, 254, 270, 301, 432n21 290–91, 329; vs. war, 407–8
desertifi 76, 180 economics, 8–15; assumptions in, 72–73; and cation,
developed countries: clothes in, 359; change, 6–7, 26–39, 310–11, 319–20;
English-speaking, 116, 142, 208, 224, 227, communication of, 24–25; and culture,
273; future growth of, 283, 344–47; HDI 317, 350; on development, 38, 283–84,
in, 166; income distribution within, 286–89, 319–22, 325; dogmatism in, 318,
139–41, 281, 282; and intellectual property 319; ends vs. means in, 325; fashions in,
rights, 390; and Internet, 401–2; life 298; and globalization, 79, 350; and
expectancy in, 141, 414; natural disasters inequalities, 396; and knowledge-based
in, 132–33; and neoliberalism, 8, 228; and economies, 391–92; and language, 411,
privatization of war, 406; transfers from 412; lies in, 2, 12–14; mathematical models
less-developed countries to, 191, 194, 202, in, 24, 25, 321–22; and media, 9–10, 16;
382; vs. less-developed countries, 7–8, mumbo-jumbo in, 4–6; neoclassical,
100–101, 129–39, 152–57, 278–79, 281, 328, 204–5, 250, 281, 287, 323, 326, 382;
344–47. See also less-developed countries paradigm change in, 319–20; and politics,
Development as Freedom (Sen), 167 10–11, 206, 320; of shortage, 206; on the
Dickens, Charles, 71 state, 247; supply-side, 207; terminology
digital divide, 141–42 in, 204–5. See also neoliberalism
digital revolution, 101, 103, 398, 399 Economics Council of the Council of
diseases, 98, 160, 164, 274, 297, 414; emergence Ministers (Poland), 214
of new, 159–60; and pharmaceutical economies: barter, 145; and environment, 182,
industry, 161–62. See also health 412; free-market, 12, 32–33, 208, 224, 240,
dogs, 48, 146, 150, 155, 417 290; goods-and-money, 49; and Internet,
Dominican Republic, 314, 373 398, 399; knowledge-based, 343, 386–92,
Dubai, 36 399, 412; market, 11, 12, 16, 110, 128, 212,
Dürer, Albrecht, 127, 176 215, 218, 220, 229, 232, 234, 242–48, 330,
344, 353; planned, 9, 22, 128, 205–6, 210;
Earmath, Fritz M., 236–38 and terrorism, 404. See also social market
Easter Island, 177 economies
