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

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Index 459 Transnistria (Pridnestrovie), 33 development in, 36, 44, 136, 162, 165, 280, Transparency International, 356 281; discontent in, 220, 227; economic truth, 126, 172, 202, 224, 308, 325; freedom in, 171; economic policy for, 327; communication of, 1–6; cost of, 3, 9; and economics in, 8; employment sectors in, the future, 42, 360, 395; scientifi 3, 56, 163, 54–55; and environment, 365, 366, 368; and c, 309, 310; vs. lies, 10, 12–13, 14, 19–20, 22 E.U., 30, 32, 33, 38, 220–21, 226, 427n3; and Trzeciakowski, Witold, 214 exchange rates, 196–99, 202; fi ctional Turkey, 52, 168, 194, 226, 429n12; debt of, 192, collapse of, 28; GDP of, 59, 129, 221, 225; 193; and E.U., 33, 439n13; fi nancial crisis and globalization, 105, 108, 110, 249, 353; as in, 98; and globalization, 102 global power, 220, 350–51, 352, 353, 409; Turkmenistan, 168, 171, 305 hostility to, 220, 225, 226; income Tuvalu, 168 distribution in, 222–24, 246; income in, 61, 106, 130, 202, 220, 222; and India, 235; Uganda, 141, 171, 193, 301, 303 inequalities in, 262; infl 205; ation in, Ukraine, 172, 232, 242, 270, 314, 373, 429n12; institutions in, 247; integration of, 89, 113; development in, 64, 136, 344–45; and E.U., invasion of Iraq by, 15, 352, 368; and Iran, 33; income disparities in, 137; and 338; and knowledge, 390, 391; and Latin interdependence, 93 America, 32, 209, 339; leisure time in, unemployment, 145, 232, 246, 293; and 221–22; media bias in, 18; and Middle East, development, 264–65; in Poland, 217–18, 33–34, 279; migration to, 30, 83, 374, 377; 219; and stagfl 205, 206 as model, 435n14; multiculturalism in, ation, United Arab Emirates, 65, 187, 301, 378, 408 419; natural disasters in, 133; neoliberalism United Kingdom (U.K.), 8, 44, 229, 231, 240, in, 15, 16, 208, 210, 211, 212, 220–28; NRI 296, 339; colonialism of, 304; debt of, 192; of, 142; and Poland, 213, 214, 277, 306; defi 185; democracy in, 305; population of, 373, 374, 375–76; and cits of, development in, 136, 272, 301; economic poverty, 385; and regional groups, 97; freedom in, 171; GDP of, 129, 235, 429n12; response to 9/11 by, 404–5; and Rushdie, and global institutions, 352; as global 428n5; and Russia, 236–38, 375, 391; power, 44, 351, 375; and greenhouse gases, segregation in, 30–31; slowing growth of, 179; incomes in, 106, 221; infl 205; 345–46; social mobility in, 224–25; the ation in, investments by, 195; migration to, 379; state in, 104, 245; SWB of, 270; and trade, neoliberalism in, 208, 211, 212, 213; NRI of, 131; and U.N., 348–49; and universal 142; poverty in, 70, 71; privatization in, currency, 121–22, 123; vs. U.S.S.R., 211; and 328; and regional groups, 97, 432n21; role war, 67, 407; women in, 285 of the state in, 104; and slavery, 30, 94; Universal Privatization Program (Poland), 5–6 social mobility in, 224–25; and universal Upper Paleolithic Revolution, 47, 48 currency, 121; and wars, 67 urbanization, 44, 76, 109, 408, 409; early, 48, United Nations (UN), 135, 143, 161, 175; and 52–53, 76 global institutions, 352, 353; Millennium Uruguay, 65, 89, 168, 228 Development Goals of, 273–76; on Utopia (More), 126 population growth, 370–71, 374; and utopianism, 126, 251–52, 336 Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 116; U.S. Uzbekistan, 136, 354 power in, 348–49 United Nations Development Program values: and culture, 317, 347–50; and (UNDP), 158–59, 167 development, 163, 164, 166, 265, 290, 291, United States (U.S.): agriculture in, 27–28, 294, 347–50, 412; and economic models, 44, 85; and Asia, 408; and biofuels, 361; 320; and ends vs. means, 323; and capitalism in, 44, 225, 435n14; and China, environment, 368; and freedom, 170, 189, 195, 226, 229, 233, 235, 281–82, 339, 353, 172; in the future, 343; and income 427n7; Cold-War culture in, 253–54; distribution, 173, 383; and knowledge, 387; colonialism of, 89, 304; consumption in, material vs. spiritual, 347; and motivation, 102, 202, 225, 277; crises in, 201–2; culture 315; multicultural, 409; and poverty, 386; of, 378; currency of, 34, 118–19, 413; debt and the state, 247; and women, 284 of, 191–93, 220–21; defi 95, 121, 195, Venezuela, 65, 89, 90, 228, 306, 339 cits of, 196, 202; democracy in, 304–5; Vietnam, 85, 172, 193, 230, 378, 407, 411

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