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Lin, Justin Yifu, 241, 436n29 market forces, 72, 73, 104, 112–13, 292
Lipton, David, 237 markets: in China, 229, 230, 232, 234; and
Lisbon Agenda (E.U.), 32, 38 development, 72, 73, 290, 292, 344; and
literacy: and democracy, 307; and development, ends vs. means, 324; equilibrium of, 87,
158, 163, 266; in future, 418; improvements 88; free, 32–33, 208, 224, 240, 290; and
in, 53–54; inequalities in, 141; and globalization, 82, 83, 110, 353; and income
interdependence, 93; and Internet, 402; distribution, 136, 223; and institutions,
and knowledge-based economies, 388, 299; integration of, 86, 89; invisible hand
390; and socialism, 162–63; of women, 187. of, 73, 109, 224, 248; and liberalization, 85,
See also education 215; and neoliberalism, 16, 104, 208, 224;
Lithuania, 64, 201, 373, 438n6 in postsocialist countries, 128, 212, 215, 218,
Live Earth, 280 220, 240, 309; and privatization, 323; and
living standards: and aging populations, 376; reforms, 11, 12; and spontaneity, 330; and
in coincidence theory, 331; comparisons of, the state, 73, 242–48, 249, 357; vs.
60; in developed countries, 106, 152–57; democratic government, 112–13; vs.
and development, 262, 263, 264, 266; planned economy, 128, 205–6. See also
dollar-a-day, 141, 145–52; and energy fi nancial markets
resources, 362; future, 344, 418; and HDI, Marshall Islands, 348
157–58; inequalities in, 141–57, 383; and Marx, Karl, 44, 91–92, 386
labor productivity, 265; past vs. present, Marxism, 382
69–71, 408; in social market economies, mathematics, 24, 25, 57, 321–22
254; and universal currency, 122; vs. capital, Mauritania, 193, 328
257–61; vs. income, 129–30 Mauritius, 177
Lorenz curve, 133–34 Mayas, 44, 178, 290
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 94 Mazowiecki, Tadeusz, 213–14
Lucas, Robert E., 288 McCarthy, Cormac, 28
Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio, 182, 384–85 Médecins sans Frontières, 356
Luxembourg, 31, 61, 130, 171, 195, 270, 273, 316 media: bias of, 3, 17–18; and corruption, 244;
and culture, 312, 409; and economics,
Maastricht, Treaty of, 189, 432n21 9–10, 16; on energy resources, 360, 363;
Macao, 188 on environment, 174, 179; on fi nance, 185,
Macedonia, 33, 64, 345 190; and freedom rankings, 172–73; and
MacLeod, Ian, 433n2 intelligence services, 21–22, 426n18;
Madagascar, 64, 193, 223 and interdependence, 96–97; and
Maddison, Angus, 59, 428n7 Lendenbaums, 155; lies of, 21, 174; and
Mahathir, Mohammad, 315 neoliberalism, 122, 210, 252; in Poland, 215,
Malawi, 60, 64, 159, 193 217; and policy, 308; and politics, 13, 15–18,
Malaysia, 130, 196, 228; development in, 166, 303; and pro-growth lobby, 336; and
277, 314, 315, 316; and globalization, 102; science, 340, 394; and the state, 245; and
pragmatism in, 325 terrorism, 404; and war, 407; Western,
Mali, 85, 118, 149, 168, 193, 231; birth rate in, 21–22, 226
372, 436n22; fi lm industry in, 248–49; Medvedev, Dmitri, 188
HDI in, 159, 163; vs. Poland, 60–61 Mercosur (Mercado Común del Sur), 89, 354,
Malta, 162, 191, 429n12 439n7
Malthus, Thomas, 276 Mesopotamia, 47–48, 76
management, 269, 388, 399, 435n14; and Mexico, 44, 65, 94, 192, 241, 380; democracy
coincidence theory, 322, 325, 332; and in, 168, 173; migration from, 30; and U.S.,
development, 62, 132, 265, 286; and direct 32, 226
foreign investment, 186; and future Mickiewicz, Adam, 44
technology, 396–97; of institutions, 296, Middle Ages, 56, 62, 63, 68, 80, 297, 307
300, 350 middle class, 6, 85, 145, 263, 272; expansion of,
Mandelson, Peter, 240 92; in the future, 415, 418; past vs. present,
Man of Marble (fi lm), 27 69–70
manufacturing, 55, 103, 108, 131 Middle East: development in, 65, 166, 289, 315;
Mao Zedong, 60, 61, 111–12, 228, 232 and E.U., 33–34; and exchange rates, 201;
