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

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Index 449 disparities in, 137; path dependence in, 35; Millennium Development Goals, 275; vs. Argentina, 313; vs. China, 231 poverty in, 71; and regional groups, 354 hunger, 30, 145, 274–76, 277, 342, 385, 418; in Indonesia, 192, 194, 328, 352; culture of, 316; Brazil, 384, 388. See also poverty democracy score of, 168; development of, Huntington, Samuel P., 58 136, 163, 165, 166; fi nancial crisis in, 98; and pharmaceutical industry, 161–62; and Ibn Rushd (Averroes), 57 population growth, 380 Ibn Sina (Avicenna), 57 industrialization, 44, 76, 80, 328; in models of Iceland, 142, 162, 224, 254, 270 growth, 283, 284; vs. environment, 98, 412 ideology: in economics, 7, 16, 72, 73, 288, 320; inequalities: and biotechnology, 395–96; and error, 5, 9, 10–11; in future, 337; and within countries, 281, 282; decrease in, knowledge-based economies, 391; and lies, 140; and development, 163, 173, 222, 262–65, 13–14, 20; in Poland, 217; and policy, 269, 329; in the future, 343, 344, 349, 309–10; in public debate, 19, 23; and 418; global, 107–8, 129–39; of income, 84, special interests, 15–16; utopian, 251–52, 129–131, 133–144, 381–386; measurement of, 336; vs. coincidence theory, 325, 336; vs. 136–38; and regional groups, 356; and size objectivity, 170; vs. pragmatism, 326, 327, of the state, 246; and social tension, 108, 333; vs. universal currency, 123. See also 282, 405; and universal currency, 121, 122; neoliberalism in U.S., 220, 224, 225 IMF.See International Monetary Fund infant mortality rates, 55, 246, 274, 372, imitation, 4, 66, 102, 289, 389 436n22 Incas, 290 infl 260, 323; and exchange rates, 199, ation, income: in Africa, 51, 52, 130, 137, 141, 144; 201; in Latin America, 208, 384; and average, 130–31, 139, 140, 143–44, 156–57; money supply, 320, 323; and neoliberalism, and Brazil, 384; comparisons of, 60–61, 205–7, 228; and the state, 246, 326 68, 133–44; and development, 163, 262, information, 95, 106, 125, 245, 296, 398; and 267; dollar-a-day, 138, 143–44, 145–52; in democracy, 307–9; in the future, 416, 418; future, 344, 384; increases in, 54, 143–44, and globalization, 83, 86, 97; limited, 73; 156–57; inequalities of, 84, 129–31, 133–44, and privacy, 400. See also knowledge 381–86; in past, 51, 52, 68–70; and public infrastructure, 115, 132–33, 142, 145, 326, 399 opinion, 138–39; and size of the state, 245; innovation, 4, 224, 396; and development, 62, in U.S., 61, 130, 202, 220, 222; vs. 66, 264, 289, 290; and Internet, 400–401; consumption, 129, 221; vs. leisure time, and knowledge-based economies, 388, 389 220; vs. living standards, 129–30; and Inquisition, 3, 46 wages vs. profi 106–7 Institute for the Economy in Transition ts, income distribution: between countries, (Russia), 16 139–41; within countries, 139–41, 281, 282; in Institute of Economic Affairs (UK), 16 developed countries, 139–41, 281, 282; and institutions, 294–302; and capital, 296, 299; development, 138–39, 173–74, 222, 258–61, and coincidence theory, 322, 323, 325, 332; 280, 281, 282, 292; and GDP, 164, 243; and and culture, 296, 297, 311, 313, 316; and global institutions, 353–54; and GNH, 270; democracy, 306; and development, 265, and HDI, 164–66, 273; in less-developed 291, 328, 386; and environment, 367; in the countries, 163, 272; measurement of, 133–39; future, 129, 343, 392, 413; and geography, and Millennium Development Goals, 274; 103; global, 108–17, 129, 225, 294, 329, 349, and neoliberalism, 222, 236, 252–53; and the 350–54; and intellectual property rights, state, 136, 138, 240–41, 242–43, 302; and 297–98; and Internet, 124, 400; and universal currency, 123; in U.S., 222–24, knowledge, 388, 403; and labor, 106–7; 246; and women, 285 management of, 296, 300, 350; and India, 63, 170, 201, 426n18, 428n8; ancient, motivation, 315; and nonrenewable 50, 51; climate of, 75; currency of, 118; debt resources, 364; and politics, 113, 300, of, 192, 199; democracy score of, 168; 353–54; in postsocialist countries, 215, 232, development of, 136, 234–35, 241, 270, 272, 247, 253, 298; and regional groupings, 354; 375; and environment, 98, 176, 365; GDP and security, 406; and the state, 242–43, of, 234, 435n21; and global institutions, 246–47, 326; types of, 298–99 352; and migration, 377, 378; and Integrated Success Index (ISI), 270–71, 350

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