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Page 7Table of Contents
Page 9The Navigator
Page 131. The World, Words, and Meaning: Where Truth, Errors, and Lies in Economics and Politics Come from and What to Do to Make Truth Come First
Page 382. How Things Happen: Economic Processes—What Science, Policy, and Happenstance Have to Do with Them and Who Set It Up This Way
Page 523. A Brief History of the World and What We Can Learn from It: Why Some Countries Are Wealthy and Others Poor and Whether It Must Always Be So
Page 904. Globalization—and Then What? Where Globalization Originated and How to Come Out Ahead in the Era of Worldwide Interdependence
Page 1395. The World As It Is: How People Are Coping in Various Corners of a Changing World
Page 2166. The Withering of Neoliberalism and Its Tattered Legacy: Why a Harmful Concept Rose to Temporary Ascendancy in Half the World and What to Do About It
Page 2687. What Development Is and What It Depends On: Where Socioeconomic Development Comes from and How It Can Make Us Happy
Page 3058. Stagnation and Development—Institutions, Policy, and Culture: On the Rules of the Economic Game, Deleterious and Progressive Policies, and the Signifi cance of Culture in Development
Page 3319. The Coincidence Theory of Development and the New Pragmatism: What Output Growth and Economic Development Depend On and How to Make Them Better
Page 35010. The Uncertain Future: What Awaits Us in the Near and Distant Future and What Say We Have in It
Page 433A Letter
Page 437Notes
Page 453Index

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460 Index wages, 105, 121, 222; as share of income, 106–7 Wheen, Francis, 3–4 Wagner, Richard, 44 Wilczek, Frank, 340 Wangchuk, Jigme Singye (king of Bhutan), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), 269, 272 181–82 war: and development, 43, 66, 67, 132, 164; women, 112, 141, 187, 274, 284–85, 307 and environment, 182, 368–69; in the World Bank, 135, 143, 186, 241, 435n21; and future, 343, 403–8, 419; and global corruption, 244; and debt, 193, 194; end institutions, 352; and intellectual property of, 413; and neoliberalism, 210, 212 rights, 390; in Niger, 149; nuclear, 404; World Economic Forum (Davos), 172 and population growth, 372–73; and World Health Organization (WHO), 159, 161 poverty, 132, 419; privatization of, 108, World Trade Organization (WTO), 86, 229, 406–7; and resources, 358, 363; and 299, 352 technology, 395 World War I, 67, 68, 99 Washington Consensus, 209, 210, 214, 228, World War II, 67, 68, 82, 99 231, 234, 241, 250, 434n9 water resources, 279–80, 415, 416–17 Yeltsin, Boris, 188, 212, 242 Watt, James, 335 Yemen, 163, 172, 193, 372 wealth, 72, 240, 385; and development, 134–35, Yugoslavia, 11, 35, 117, 231 268; and environment, 412; and GNH, 272; inequalities of, 383; and Internet, 398; Zambia, 64, 193, 376, 412 in U.S., 220, 223, 224 Zamenhof, Ludwik, 411 Wealth of Nations (Smith), 335 Zarathustra, 50 weapons, 395; of mass destruction, 404; trade zero growth, 277 in, 406–7, 419 Zero Hunger (Fome Zero ), 384, 388 Weber, Max, 310 Zimbabwe, 93, 142, 171, 187, 242, 270, 314, 339, Wen Jibao, 232 379

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