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The Price of Everything

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by Eduardo Porter


  240-246 Economics for a New World: Limits to the assumption of human rationality and self-regard are discussed in Herbert Gintis, “Five Principles for the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences,” Working Paper, May 13, 2008. The impact of payments on altruistic motivations is discussed in Carl Mellström and Magnus Johannesson, “Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?,” Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2008, pp. 845-863; William Upton, “Altruism, Attribution and Intrinsic Motivation in the Recruitment of Blood Donors,” doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, August 1973; and Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, and Stephan Meier, “Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially,” Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Working Paper, August 2007 (www.bos.frb.org/economic/wp/wp2007/wp0709.pdf, accessed 08/08/2010). Data on the increasing economic clout of developing countries can be found in OECD Development Center, “Economy: Developing Countries Set to Account for Nearly 60% of World GDP by 2030, According to New Estimates,” June 16, 2010 (at www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3343,en_2649_33959_45467980_1_1_1_1,00.html, accessed 07/19/2010). The potential impact of recession on the mind-set of Americans is discussed in Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo, “Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy,” NBER Working Paper, September 2009. The British Treasury’s response to Keynes’s suggestions during the Great Depression is in Anatole Kaletsky, Capitalism 4.0 (New York: Public Affairs, 2010), p. 50. And Alan Greenspan’s shock was recorded in Brian Knowlton and Michael Grynbaum, “Greenspan ‘Shocked’ That Free Markets Are Flawed,” New York Times, October 23, 2008.

  Index

  ABC

  Abell, O. J.

  abortion (feticide)

  Abu Dhabi

  Aché

  adaptation

  adultery

  advertising

  news and

  television

  Africa

  polygamy in

  premarital sex in

  slave trade in

  Agent Orange

  agriculture

  food prices and

  future of

  illegal immigrants and

  productivity in

  slavery and

  Agriculture Department, U.S.

  airlines

  air pollution

  airports, Hare Krishna in

  Aktion T-4

  alcohol

  altruism

  Amazon.com

  American Airlines

  American Association of Retired People

  American Indians

  American Society for Reproductive Medicine

  Amway

  Anabaptists

  Anderson, Chris

  anemia

  animal welfare movements

  apes, bonobo

  Apple

  Aquinas, Thomas

  Archimedes of Syracuse

  Argentina

  Ariely, Dan

  aristocracy

  Aristotle

  Arno River

  Asia

  financial crisis in

  AT&T

  auctions

  Augustine, Saint

  Australia

  auto industry

  Babylonian code

  Badalone, Il (barge)

  Bangladesh

  banks, bankers

  earnings of

  regulation of

  Bardot, Brigitte

  BarranquillasBest.com

  Barton, Joe

  baseball

  basketball games

  beauty, wages and

  Becker, Gary

  Beckham, David

  Beecher, Thomas K.

  behavioral economics

  Belgium, Belgians

  Benedict, Pope

  benefits

  Benny, Jack

  Berlioz, Hector

  Bernanke, Ben

  Betzig, Laura

  Bhutan

  Bible

  bicycles

  BigChampagne

  bike helmets

  birds

  birth-control pills

  Black Death

  blacks, workplace fatalities of

  Blinder, Alan

  body

  Book-of-the-Month Club

  books

  Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique

  Bourdieu, Pierre

  BP

  Bracero program

  Brand, Stewart

  Brazil

  culture in

  Pelé in

  bride prices

  Brooklyn

  Brown, Dan

  Brunelleschi, Filippo

  bubbles

  Buffett, Warren

  Burkina Faso

  Burundi, happiness in

  Bush, George W.

  business

  Caen

  California

  California, University of (Berkeley)

  campaign contributions

  Canada

  culture in

  singles vs. married in

  cancer

  Canon

  Cantor Fitzgerald

  capital

  human

  capitalism

  carbon emissions

  “Care for Girls” initiative

  cars

  fuel efficiency of

  see also auto industry

  Cashat-Cruz, Miguel

  Catholic Church

  cell phones

  CEOs, earnings of

  charity

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Chicago, University of

  child mortality

  children

  bike helmets for

  education of

  faith and

  female

  happiness and

  women’s rearing of

  China

  future of

  genetic variation in

  income in

  missing girls in

  pollution in

  workforce in

  Chisasibi Cree

  chocolate

  Christianity

  Christmas Carol, A (Dickens)

  Chrysler

  cigarettes

  Citigroup

  Clean Air Act (1970)

  Clear Skies Act

  climate change

  CNN

  Coca-Cola

  coffee

  Colombia

  colonial America, work in

  competition

  of airlines

  for managerial talent

  between newspapers and Web

  of patented drugs vs. generics

  restraints on

  computer chips

  computers

  comScore

  concerts

  Congo

  Congress, U.S.

  campaign-finance legislation and

  copyright and

  Greenspan’s testimony to

  lobbying of

  regulation and

  see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

  Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

  Consumer Product Safety Commission

  consumers, consumption

  free things and

  contraception

  Cook, James

  Copernicus, Nicolaus

  copyright

  corporations

  wages and

  Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act (1883)

  corruption

  politics and

  cotton

  coyote

  credit

  crime

  Crompton, Samuel

  Cruise, Tom

  Cuba

  culture

  affordable traits and

  politics and

  repugnance and

  Daimler AG

  Dark Knight, The (movie)

  Darwin, Charles

  Darwinism

  Das Gupta, Monica

  Dasgupta, Partha

  Deat
on, Angus

  De Beers

  Defense Department, U.S.

  demand

  democracy

  Deng Xiaoping

  Denmark, Danes

  Denver shoppers

  deregulation

  Descartes, René

  Desperate Housewives (TV show)

  developing world

  climate change in

  garbage dumps in

  sex in

  Dickens, Charles

  Digital Rights Management technologies (DRM)

  discount rate

  discrimination

  divorce

  finances and

  dogs, as food

  dot.com bubble

  dowries

  drivers

  drugs

  abuse of

  Duke University

  Dunkin’ Donuts

  dwarf tossing

  Easter Island

  Easterlin, Richard

  Eastern Europe, former Soviet satellites in

  Eastman, George

  Eastman Kodak Company

  economic growth

  happiness and

  economics for a new world

  “Economics of Superstars, The” (Rosen)

  education

  of children

  wages and

  of women

  efficient markets

  eggs

  Egypt, Egyptians

  Ehrlich, Paul R.

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  elderly people/senior citizens

  elections

  U.S.

  electricity

  elephant-seal cows

  Elías, Julio Jorge

  e-mail, spam and

  Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act (1974)

  Empire State Stem Cell Board

  encyclopedias, free

  energy

  engagement rings

  engineers

  England

  environment see also climate change; pollution

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  Epson

  ESP printers

  Essay on the Principle of Population, An (Malthus)

  Ethiopia

  Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)

  eToys

  Eurobarometer surveys

  Europe

  Catholic Church in

  decline of polygamy in

  happiness in

  lack of sprawl in

  U.S. compared with

  work hours in

  see also Western Europe

  European Climate Exchange

  European Union

  evangelical Christianity

  executive pay

  ExxonMobil

  faith

  benefits of

  cheap

  cost of

  Fallaci, Oriana

  families

  changes to

  culture and

  income of

  of 9/11 victims

  size of

  Fanning, Shawn (the Napster)

  Federal Communications Commission

  Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, Delaney Clause to (1958)

  Federal Reserve

  Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

  “Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness” (Easterlin)

  Feinberg, Kenneth

  fertility

  decline in

  female

  file sharing

  film

  financial crises

  financial services

  fines

  fire departments

  fishing

  floors

  Florence

  foeticide

  food

  culture and

  faith and

  preparation of

  price increases for

  surpluses of

  Food and Agriculture Organization

  Food Quality Protection Act (1996)

  Ford

  Ford, Henry

  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

  Fourier, Charles

  France

  happiness in

  work hours in

  Frank, Robert

  Free (Anderson)

  Freedom Communications

  free lunch, use of term

  free rider problem

  free things

  broadcast TV and

  movies

  music

  and Napstering the world

  and profiting from ideas

  freeware

  Freud, Sigmund

  fuel see also gas

  Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  future

  ethics of

  mispricing nature and

  price of

  Gabaix, Xavier

  Gallup polls

  Gandhi

  garbage

  gas

  price of

  General Motors (GM)

  General Social Survey

  General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The (Keynes)

  genetics, genes

  Germany

  happiness in

  Germany, Nazi

  Gershom ben Judah

  Ghosts I-IV (album)

  gifts

  Glass-Steagall Act (1933)

  GlaxoSmithKline

  globalization

  global warming

  Goa

  God

  Goldin, Claudia

  goods

  Google

  Google News

  Gore, Al

  Gorton, Mark

  government

  hostility toward

  intervention of

  resource allocation of

  Great Britain

  bubbles in

  gas prices in

  happiness in

  politics in

  Great Depression

  Greece, ancient green revolution

  (1960s and 1970s)

  Greenspan, Alan

  gross national happiness (GNH) index

  Haiti

  Hammurabi

  Hanna, Mark

  happiness

  faith and

  genetics and

  life-cycle curve of

  loss aversion and

  money and

  problems with defining of

  right-left gap in

  U.S. trade-off and

  Hare Krishna Society

  Harvard University

  Haryana

  health

  health care

  health insurance

  Health Ministry, New Zealand

  Healthway

  Heinrich, Armin

  Hindus, Hinduism

  HIV

  homeland security, U.S.

  Homeland Security Department, U.S.

  Hoover, Herbert

  horse meat

  House of Representatives, U.S.

  housing, homes

  bubble

  price of

  HP

  human papillomavirus

  Hume, David

  Hungary

  hunting

  I Am Rich

  Iannaccone, Larry

  IBM

  Iceland

  ideas

  Illinois

  illustrators

  Illy

  iMacs

  immigrants

  illegal

  Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)

  improvement

  income

  family

  happiness and

  inequality of

  marriage and

  national

  redistribution of

  tax on

  technological progress and

  indentured servants

  India

  future of

  marriage in

  sex ratios in

  Indonesia

  indulgences

  industrialization

&nbs
p; inequality

  income

  Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!, The (album)

  infanticide

  information

  conflict between makers and consumers of

  driven off-line

  free online

  information technology

  Inhofe, James

  ink

  In Rainbows (album)

  insurance

  health

  social

  insurance companies

  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  International Labour Organization

  Internet

  free downloads and

  internet service providers (ISPs)

  investment

  bubbles and

  in human capital

  investment banks

  iPhone

  Iran

  Ireland, Irish

  Isabella, Queen of Spain

  Israel

  Italy

  iTunes

  Jack Benny Show, The (TV show)

  Jackson, Michael

  janitors

  Japan, Japanese

  culture in

  health-related expenditures in

  Jehovah’s Witnesses

  Jews, Judaism

  Orthodox

  ultra-Orthodox

  Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan

  jobs

  Jobs, Steve

  John Paul II, Pope

  Johns, Adrian

  justice

  Justice Department, U.S.

  Justinian, Emperor

  Kahneman, Daniel

  Karnataka

  Katrina, Hurricane

  Kellner, Jamie

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Robert

  Kenya

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah

  Khouri, Saeed

  kidneys

  Kimble, George H. T.

  Kipsigis

  Kmart

  Kodachrome

  Kodak

  Kolkata

  Krugman, Paul

  labor, cost of

  labor theory of value

  labor unions

  Lamalera

  land, allocation of

  Langthab

  lap dancing

  lawyers

  Lazcano-Ponce, Eduardo

  legal system, laws

  Lehman Brothers

  Lennon, John

  Leo IX, Pope

  Lewis, W. Arthur

  license plates

  licensing

  Liebowitz, Stan

  life, price of

  health care and

  9/11 and

  life expectancy

  lighthouses

  Lincoln, Abraham

  lobbying

  London

  Los Angeles, Calif., housing in

  Lost Symbol, The (Brown)

  Louis XVI, King of France

  Luther, Martin

 

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