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

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Index 453 future of, 408; and globalization, 102; Nazism, 81 health in, 159; history of, 51; investment by, Neanderthals, 46, 47 189; and migration, 379, 409; and oil, 68, Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism 359; population growth in, 370; reforms (Nkrumah), 82 in, 301; regional groups in, 354; trade neoconservatism, 16, 223, 225, 227, 241 surpluses in, 187; and universal currency, neoliberalism, 7–8, 204–55; on capital, 211, 121; and U.S., 226, 279. See also particular 223–24, 252, 253; and capitalism, 104, 228, countries 311; and central banks, 190; in China, migration: and Africa, 29, 83, 84, 379, 409; 229–34; and corruption, 244–45; on efforts to stop, 374, 380; and Europe, 30, development, 281; and ends vs. means, 323; 84, 106, 409; free, 299, 379–80; in the and environment, 369; failure of, 37, future, 343, 346, 370, 372, 373, 374, 375, 254–55, 308; on foreign exchange reserves, 409, 414; and globalization, 101, 109, 188; and globalization, 110, 126, 249–55; 379–80; history of, 377–78; and human good points of, 242, 244; on income capital, 379, 382; of labor, 38, 83–84, 122, distribution, 222, 236, 252–53, 302, 382; in 299, 377, 379; and population, 372, 373, India, 234–35; on labor, 83, 107, 207, 377–81, 414; and potential revolution, 108; 223–224, 225, 252; in Latin America, 108, and poverty, 145, 383; and terrorism, 405; 211, 228, 384; and liberalization, 209, 240, to U.S., 30, 83, 374, 377 250, 406; lies of, 174, 217, 242; on markets, Millennium Development Goals (U.N.), 16, 104, 208, 224; and measures of 273–76 freedom, 170; and media, 122, 210, 252; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), mumbo-jumbo in, 4–6, 209; and 175–76, 358 nonrenewable resources, 364; and Les Misérables (Hugo), 401 paradigm change, 319; in postsocialist Modern Times (fi lm), 399 countries, 9, 11, 104, 210–20, 228, 250, 253; Moldova, 33, 64, 185–86, 270, 373, 429n12 and potential revolution, 108; and Monaco, 168 pro-growth lobby, 335; role of the state in, monetarism, 319, 320, 323, 325 17, 23, 104, 108, 208, 222, 224, 228, 406; in Mongolia, 64, 168, 211, 270, 345, 354, 412 Russia, 235–40, 374; in social market monocultures, economic, 63, 65, 187 economies, 254; and universal currency, Montaigne, 12–13 121, 122; in U.S., 15, 16, 208, 210, 211, 212, Montenegro, 64 220–28, 352; vs. Adam Smith, 73; vs. Montevideo, 76 coincidence theory, 317, 324; vs. populism, Morales, Evo, 138 19, 20, 253; vs. pragmatism, 327; vs. More, Thomas, 126 rationality, 254–55, 337 Morocco, 33, 226 Neolithic Revolution, 47–48 Mozambique, 142, 159, 163, 164, 193, 375 Nepal, 132, 171, 406 multiculturalism, 272, 312, 316, 352, 412; in the Netanyahu, Binyamin, 226 future, 409, 418–19 Netherlands, 31, 142, 179, 187, 192, 245; Mundell, Robert A., 119–20 development in, 162, 273, 301, 316 Murdoch, Rupert, 15 net international investment position (NIIP), Museveni, Yoweri, 303 183 Networked Readiness Index (NRI), 142–43 NAFTA (North American Free Trade networks, 191, 325, 343 Association), 354, 408, 439n8 New Deal (U.S.), 36 Namibia, 48, 64, 136, 137, 168, 412; HDI in, New Guinea, 48 164–65, 166 New York, 52, 76–77 nation-states, 104, 105, 125; cultures of, 311–16; New Zealand, 44, 54, 171, 208, 211, 289, 408 in the future, 408–9, 412, 416. See also Nicaragua, 65, 165, 172, 193, 228, 306, 328 the state Nicholson, Jack, 153 Native Americans, 90, 91 Niger, 118, 157, 172, 193, 231, 361; birth rate in, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 372, 436n22; dollar-a-day living standards 407 in, 141, 145–52; HDI in, 159, 163; light in, Natufi 47–48 410; stagnation in, 64, 132; and ans, natural disasters, 132–33, 180, 189, 416–17 Switzerland, 153, 154

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