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Sen, Amartya, 167, 272 in, 304; debt of, 193; development in, 36,
Sendero Luminoso, 405 131, 315; fi nancial crisis in, 95, 98, 200; and
Senegal, 36, 64, 168, 172, 193, 301, 314 foreign aid, 346; military in, 406; regional
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 93, 404–5 groups in, 354. See also particular countries
Serbia, 64, 134, 168 South Korea, 45, 168, 196, 373; development
Shakespeare, William, 412 in, 130, 131, 162, 166
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.), 11, 45, 249; and Cold
354 War, 100, 253–54; economic model of, 207;
shock therapy, 213, 215, 229, 233, 435n12 fall of, 117, 208, 210, 211–12, 347, 351, 404;
shortagefl 206 and Poland, 212–13; vs. China, 231, 232 ation,
Siberia, 34, 52, 75, 95 Spain, 89, 192; colonialism of, 111, 126, 351;
Sierra Leone, 136, 163, 193, 372, 427n4 foreign exchange reserves of, 189–90;
Singapore, 131, 142, 168, 171, 187, 196, 373 population of, 373, 377, 380
The Skeptical Environmentalist (Lomborg), 174 Sparta, 112
slavery, 29, 30, 46, 51, 291, 362, 378; and price special interests: and democracy, 239, 305–6,
of sugar, 94 307; and disease, 161; and economics, 16;
Slovakia, 123, 136, 162, 431n21 and energy resources, 361, 363; and
Slovenia, 137, 162, 270, 314, 373, 431n21 exchange rates, 201; and freedom rankings,
Smith, Adam, 73, 287, 335, 430n18 172–73; and globalization, 91, 126, 351; and
Snow (Pamuk), 382 ideology, 15–16; and income inequalities,
social cohesion, 139, 220, 247, 261, 331 383; and lies, 20, 174; and NGOs, 357; in
social development, 215; and coincidence Poland, 213, 218; and policy, 309–10;
theory, 325; crises in, 98; and economic politics of, 251; and pragmatism, 337; and
development, 59, 71, 157–66, 261–66, 268, pro-growth lobby, 335; and public opinion,
348; and globalization, 78, 92–93; and 138; in Russia, 236; vs. development, 241;
neoliberalism, 209 vs. universal currency, 123
social exclusion, 225, 252, 357, 383, 405; margin speculation: and capital, 98, 352; in currencies,
of, 107–8, 254 123, 200–201; and debt, 183, 184, 199; and
socialism: central planning in, 9, 22; in China, defi 186, 187; in exchange rates, 120–21, cits,
229, 230, 231, 233; end of, 37, 110, 208–10, 200–201; and the future, 342; and
232, 347; and HDI, 162–63; in Latin neoliberalism, 211, 252; in Russia, 236–37
America, 228, 336; and neoliberalism, 208; Spring of Nations (1848), 44, 92
as “second world,” 99–100; and social Sri Lanka, 378
market economies, 253, 254; and stagfl stagfl 205–6, 208, 433n2 ation, ation,
205–6; transformation from, 128; vs. stagnation, 30, 56, 227, 315; in Africa, 64, 277;
capitalism, 12, 82, 103–4, 128, 207, 254, and culture, 310, 316, 317; and debt relief,
293–95 193; in early history, 48, 53, 54–55, 62; and
socialist countries: infl 205–6; foreign aid, 346; in the future, 74; and ation in,
reforms in, 206, 301–2. See also human capital, 224; and institutions, 296,
postsocialist countries 301; in Latin America, 65, 132, 208; and
social market economies, 213, 214; and culture, neoliberalism, 228, 242; and policy, 310; in
311; and globalization, 253, 254; and “golden population growth, 371; and pro-growth
sequence,” 331; and leisure time, 221–22; as lobby, 335; vs. development, 37, 38, 59, 66,
model, 241–42; and population growth, 131, 290; vs. investment, 152; vs. revolution,
380; and socialism, 253, 254; social mobility 55; and war, 408
in, 224–25; the state in, 244; vs. U.S., 225; Star Trek (television program), 27
and women, 285 the state: and bureaucracy, 243, 244; and
Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS; Poland), 216 capital, 81, 245, 248, 249, 326; in China,
Solidarity movement, 213, 214 230, 234; in coincidence theory, 330,
Somalia, 130, 193, 244, 372, 406 331, 333; and corruption, 244–45;
South Africa, 45, 168, 192, 379, 398; climate of, decentralization of, 329; democratic vs.
75; development in, 64, 136, 164–65, 166, representative, 112–13; and development,
289; extinctions in, 176 23, 65, 132, 242–48, 262; and energy
Southeast Asia, 88, 159, 195, 196, 212, 277, 308, resources, 363–64; and environment, 115,
370; agriculture in, 48; authoritarianism 243, 326; formation of, 43; global, 111–12,
