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

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454 Index Nigeria, 67, 242, 379, 391; development in, 132, pharmaceutical industry, 161–62, 390 136; and globalization, 105; natural Phelps, Edmund S., 206, 434n6 resources in, 173; war in, 406 Philippines, 223, 314, 378 Nkrumah, Kwame, 82 Phillip II (king of Spain), 111 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 45, Phillips, Alban W., 434n5 125, 167, 273, 308, 401; in the future, 343, Phillips curve, 206, 434n5 356–58, 413–14; and globalization, 104, 352 Phoenicians, 49 North America: and climate, 75, 180; physics, 57, 339–40, 393–94 consumption in, 277, 369; development in, Picasso, Pablo, 127 66, 166, 289; early history of, 51, 61; and Pinochet, Augusto, 209 environment, 179; free market in, 32–33; Pissaro, Camille, 27 and the future, 74, 334, 344; GDP in, 59; Plato, 80, 126 health in, 159; income in, 51, 54; Poland: in 1989, 45; agricultural subsidies in, integration of, 89–90; Internet access in, 85; banks in, 219–20; and Belarus, 339; cell 142; light in, 409–10; migration to, 84, phones in, 398; and China, 229, 230, 231, 106; as model, 348; population of, 370, 371, 235; comparisons of, 60–61, 314; culture 374; poverty in, 71; regional groups in, 354. of, 218, 301, 312; currency of, 118, 120; debt See also Canada; United States of, 192, 193, 199–200; democracy in, 306; North Korea, 168, 171, 210, 391 development in, 133, 134, 162, 165, 166, Norway, 136, 137, 142, 187, 254, 327, 380; fi lm 215–16, 217, 266–68, 308; economy of, 18, industry in, 248–49 44, 172, 212; and exchange rates, 195, NRI.See Networked Readiness Index 197–99, 200, 201, 214, 427n7; exports nuclear power, 362 from, 194; and foreign aid, 385; foreign exchange reserves of, 189–90, 197, Obama, Barack, 31 199–200; and the future, 334; GDP of, 216, Obama, Sarah Anyango, 31 217, 219, 331; and “golden sequence,” 331; oil prices, 65, 68 income in, 61, 157, 222; infant mortality oil-producing countries, 63, 65, 66–67, 359, 361 rates in, 436n22; institutions in, 247; and Olympic Games, 50, 93 interdependence, 94–95; lies in, 2, 217, 218, Oman, 172 219; light in, 410; media bias in, 18, 215, Organization for Economic Cooperation and 217; and migration, 30, 34, 377–78; Development (OECD), 131, 162, 168, 195, neoliberalism in, 11, 211, 212–20, 250; NRI 216, 221 of, 142; path dependence in, 35; population Orwell, George, 356 of, 373, 375, 380; pragmatic approach in, Otto I (Holy Roman emperor), 43 325–26; privatization in, 5–8, 214; role of Oxfam, 356 the state in, 244, 248; shock therapy in, 213, 215, 216; Strategy for, 219, 325–26, 331, Pakistan, 137, 172, 354, 375, 378, 426n18; 435n13; SWB of, 270; and universal development in, 136, 165, 272; foreign currency, 122–23; and U.S., 213, 214, 277, special interests in, 305; history of, 51; 306; and U.S.S.R., 212–13; vs. Russia, natural disasters in, 132; and Rushdie, 236–37, 238; women in, 285 428n5; war in, 406 Poland, National Bank of, 219–20 Palau, 191, 199, 348 Poland, Program for the Improvement of the Palestine, 33, 132, 162, 338, 372 Finances of, 219 Pamuk, Orhan, 382 policy: in China, 234; and coincidence theory, Panama, 90, 168 332; and culture, 316; and democracy, 306, Papua New Guinea, 181, 244, 304, 411 308; and development, 7, 8, 73, 265, 286, Paraguay, 65, 89, 136, 137, 142, 305 291, 310, 384, 388; ends vs. means in, Parker, Alan, 313 323–24; and entrepreneurship, 73, 315; on The Passenger (fi lm), 153 environment, 182, 367, 369; fashions in, path dependence, 35–36 298; global, 294, 349, 350; and income Perkins, John, 434n10 inequalities, 383; and institutions, 232, Persia, 50, 56, 63, 289 300; and intelligence, 224; and knowledge, Peru, 44, 65, 89, 90, 328, 412 386, 392; in knowledge-based economies, The Pesthouse (Crace), 28 388, 391; and nonrenewable resources, 364;

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