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Accounting rules, changes in

Adelphi

Adult education

Afghanistan

Africa. See also countries in; Sub-Saharan Africa

civil wars in ethnic groups in need for better government in

Aga Khan

Aggregate demand

Aggregate economic growth

Agriculture

goal of national self-sufficiency in green revolution in land ownership and opening up to free trade privatization of protection of, in developed world settled societies in in sub-Saharan Africa subsidies in workforce in

Agriculture, U.S. Department of

AIDS

drugs for

Airbus

Air transportation systems, building better

Alcoa

Algeria, colonial treatment of

Allen, Paul

Alzheimer’s disease

Amazon

American ideas and customs, opposition to spread of

Americanization, French efforts to resist

Anaconda

Annen, Kofi

Anthrax scare

Antiglobalization

anti-American objectors and objections from the left objections from the right objections to global government and religious objectors and voices of

Antitrust laws

Antitrust suits

Apple Computer

Applications software

Argentina

economic crisis in economic development in

Arkwright, Sir Richard

Arthur Anderson

Asia, economic crisis in

Asian currencies, link to dollar

Aswali Muslims in Pakistan

Australia, immigration to

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Automobile accident investigations

Automobile industry

business models in consolidation in energy sources in foreign direct investment in foreign production in outsourcing in safety and value of dollar and

Aviation accident investigations

 

Balance of payments

Balance of power

Ballmer, Steve

Bank deposit insurance

Bankruptcies

Barbell economy

Belarus, corruption in

Bell Labs of AT&T

Bench marking

Berkshire Hathaway

Bermuda, movement of company headquarters to

Bessemer, Sir Henry

Bethlehem Steel

Bilingual English

Biology

Biophysics

Bioplastics

Biotechnology

revolution in

Birth rates

Bismarck, Otto von

Blame, assigning

Blame the foreigner rule

Blocher, Christoph

Bloomingdale’s

BMW

Boeing

Bond rating agencies

Bosnia

Botswana, corruption in

Brand names

Brazil

economic crisis in economic development in education in

Bribes

Brick-and-mortar infrastructure

British Empire

Bubble economy

Budget deficits

in Japan in U.S.

Buena Vista Social Club

Buffet, Warren

Burlington

Bush, George W.

administration of fiscal policy of Iraqi war and restrictions on steel imports savings rates and tax cuts by terrorism and

Business firms

factor price equalization by firing or employees by low-wage participation in globalization by transit of national to global

Business investment

Business models

fundamental changes in need for new successful, in automobile industry

Business savings

Buyer beware

 

California, electricity market in

Camp David talks

Canada

colonial treatment of income gap between U.S. and

Capital, mobilizing

Capital account

Capital flight

Capital flows

Capital formation

Capital inflows

Capital-intensive production technologies

Capitalism

assumptions of corruption and cowboy crime and crony deflation and earnings inequality in economic instability and efficiency of endemic scandals of genetic structure of global income distribution and inflation and management functions in moving from socialism to need for educated workforce in need for risk takers in optimism and recessions and scandals and successes and instabilities of survival of the fittest transition from communism world movement toward

Carnegie, Andrew

Cayman Islands

CDs, sales of

Central banks

Central planning

Chambers, John

Chang, Morris

Charter Semiconductor

Chief executive officer (CEO)

Chief financial officer (CFO)

Chief knowledge officer (CKO)

company national

Child labor

China

abandonment of communism by agricultural output of bilateral trade and capital-output ratio in corruption in crime in economic development in exports of foreign direct investment in globalization and global output of goods production in income gap in industrial assets in infrastructure problems in intellectual property rights in internal cost structure in joint ventures in as member of WTO movement toward free markets in per capita GDP in population growth in privatization of agriculture in savings rate in state-owned enterprises in terrorism and trade surplus of unemployment in urbanites in women in

Chiquita

Chow Yun Fat

Chrysler

Chua, Amy

Churchill, Winston

Cisco

Citibank

Citicorp

Citigroup

Clausewitz, Karl Marie von

Coca Cola

Cold War

Collateralized loans

Collective ownership

Colonialism

impact of World War II on

Columbia, kidnapping in

Columbus, Christopher

Comecon

Commodore Computer

Communication system

Communication technologies

Communism

economic growth in end of industrial inefficiency in investments under management functions in private property rights and transition to capitalism

Compaq

Comparative advantage

Competitive advantage

Compulsory state-financed education

Computers

Conglomerates

Cooper Industries

Copiers

Copying

in Japan techniques in

Copyright infringement suits

Copyrights

Core wealthy industrial countries

Corporate accounting scandals

Corruption

foreign aid and personal safety and

Countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies

Countercyclical revenue sharing

Countercyclical spending

Cowboy capitalism

Creativity

Credit markets

Crime, capitalism and

Crony capitalism

Crossair

Cross-border investment, abolishing

Crow, Russell

Cruz, Penelope

Cuba, U.S. intervention and

Cultural exports, UNESCO study of

Culture

export of traditional American import of, in U.S.

Currency values. See also Dollar; Euro; Yen

Current account deficit

Czechoslovakia

 

Da Gama, Vasco

Darwin, Charles

Death rates

Debt, deflation and

Debt reduction in Japan

Debt relief

Deep-water oil well drilling

Defense, U.S. Department of

Defense spending, post 9/11 attack

Deficit countries

Deflation

capitalism and debt and in Japan

Dell Computers

Delphi

Depressions. See also Great Depression

Deregulation

Destructive testing

Developed countries. See also First world

end of globalization and energy sources in globalization and government spending on research and development in help for developing countries per capita income in protection of agriculture in

Developing countries. See also Third world

abolition of global trade and investment flows in development of social capital by exports of global output of intellectual property rights in life expectancy in output of sweatshops in

Digital Equipment

Disaster prevention

Discounted net present values

DoCoMo

“Do good” interventions

Doha round of trade negotiations

costs for drugs in intellectual property rights and refining TRIPS and

Dollar

floating oil and in relation to Euro value of Yen as alternative to

dot.coms

stock market crash

Double dip recession

Downsizing

Drake, Sir Francis

 

Earnings inequality in capitalism

East Asia

deflation in economic crisis in

Eastern Europe, problems in changing economic systems in

Eastman Kodak

Economic decline in Sub-Saharan Africa

Economic development

access to ideas necessary for in China education and export-led model of foreign direct investment and import substitution model of internally pulled leapfrogging model of lessons of mental mindset in product-cycle model of technology and

Economic disasters

Economic freedom index

Economic globalization

Economic history, lessons from

Economic inequality

Economic instability

capitalism and in third world

Economic leadership

Economic models, problems with

Economic power, imbalance of military power and

Economics, global economy and

Economic success

Economic uncertainty

Economies of scale

Economy

geographical definition of women’s participation in

Ecuador, social capabilities in

Edison, Thomas

Education

adult compulsory state-financed economic development and foreign direct investment and for immigrants resource mobilization and in Singapore in South Korea in Taiwan in third world universal, compulsory, free of women World Bank and

Education, U.S. Department of

Egypt

ancient recruitment for terrorists in social capabilities in

Electrification

Electronic education

Electronic retailing

Electronic technologies, intellectual property rights and

Eminent domain

Employees, firing of

Enclosure movement

Energy, U.S. Department of

Engineering knowledge, acquisition of

Enron

Environmental issues

Environmental standards

Ethnic mingling

Euro

as alternative to the dollar value of, in relation to dollar

Europe

cash wages in income gap in intellectual property rights in job creation in need for cutbacks in social welfare state in need for monetary and fiscal policies to prevent deflation in recession and slowdown in refusal to accept world responsibility shrinking of manufacturing employment in stability pact in total labor costs in unemployment in wage level in

European Central Bank

European Economic Community

European Union

construction of GDP of global output of Lisbon summit of per capita income of population of

Excess capacity

Expansion

Export-led model of economic development

Exports

cultural from developing countries net

External competition

Exxon

 

Factor price equalization

Factory capacity

Farnsworth, Filo

Fear indexes

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Federal Reserve Board

Feudalism

Fiat

Fiction, separating truth from

Financial crashes

Financial instability, globalization and

Finland, income distribution in

Firing of employees

First industrial revolution

First world. See also Developed countries

ability to cause economic development agriculture in inequality in reshaping globalization for

Fiscal policies

counter cyclical need for in Europe, to prevent deflation

Fiscal stimulus packages

Fixed exchange rates

Flexible exchange rates

Floating dollar

Food and Drug Administration

Ford

Foreign aid

Foreign auto manufacturers

Foreign capital inflows

Foreign direct investment

economic development and education and

Fortuyn, Pim

France

colonial rule by corruption in efforts to resist Americanization in foreign direct investment in foreign exchange crisis in opposition to American ideas and customs in per capita GDP in stock market in total employment costs in UN Security Council and

Free markets

Free trade, opening of agricultural markets to

French Indochina, colonial treatment of

Fringe benefits for part-time workers

Fuel cells

 

Gates, Bill

Gateway

Gathering

GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)

GDP deflator

Gedanken experiments

General Electric

General Electric-Honeywell antitrust case

General Motors

Genetically modified plants

Genetic code

Genetic disease

Genetic engineering

Geographic exploration

Geographic mobility

German Council of Economic Experts

Germany

anti-American political platform in colonial empire of deflation in first industrial revolution in foreign direct investment in growth rate in industrial research and development in opposition to American ideas and customs in per capita GDP in real rate of inflation in recession and slowdown in stock market in technological gap between U.S. and telecom industry in

Ghana, corruption in

Gimbels

Global brand names

Global business firms, transition of national business firms to

Global capitalism

Global corporations, desire for low cost production bases

Global Crossing

Global economic Tower of Babel

looking up at the top of real dangers to view from top of

Global economies of scale

Global economy

building problem of restarting replacement of national economy by ups and downs of

Global financial markets

Global government

objections to rejecting but needing

Globalization

acceptance of anxiety about arguments for and against calls for ending country’s veto on dynamics of fears about financial instability and forward momentum of immigration and impact on economic inequality impact on U.S. income inequality and individual participation in merits and demerits of as multilateral phenomenon need for bold individuals in nonparticipants in opting out from participation in past religious objectors to reshaping for the first world reshaping for the third world spread of terrorism as reaction to standard of living and third world and

Global output

Global supply chain

Golden parachutes

Goldman Sachs

Gold standard

Government credibility

Government land purchases

Government share acquisitions

Great Britain. See also British Empire; United Kingdom

colonial rule by education in first industrial revolution in lack of industrial research and development in opposition to American ideas and customs in per capita income of telecom industry in textiles in

Great Depression

Greece

ancient corruption in

Greed

Green revolution

Greenspan, Alan

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Growth companies

G-7 summit

 

Hader, Jorg

Hard landing for value of the dollar

Health care

costs of foreign aid and inflation and

Hegemon, U.S. role of

Hepatitis B

Herd mentality

Hewlett-Packard

High-tech industries

Hitler, Adolf

Holland, residential space in

Home equity

Homeland Security, U.S. Department of

Honda

Honeywell. See General Electric-Honeywell antitrust case

Hong Kong

export-led economic development in infrastructure of

Hoover, Herbert

Household debt

Howard, John

Hudson, Henry

Hunting

Hussein, Saddam

Hydrocarbon energy economy

Hydrogen energy economy

Hyper power

Hysteresis of the system

 

IBM

Illegal immigration

Illiteracy

Immigration

Australian fears of first generation globalization and Latin American legal and illegal third world

Imports

from third world U.S. demand for U.S. restrictions on steel

Import substitution model of economic development

Income distribution

Income inequality

India

caste system in colonial treatment of foreign direct investment in illiteracy in patent recognition of pharmaceuticals in urbanites in

Individualism

Individual willingness

Indonesia

economic crisis in foreign direct investment in IMF in

Industrial economies

Industrial revolution

first second third

Industrial societies

Inflation

capitalism and downsizing and health care measured real rate of, in Germany remedies for in the U.S.

Infrastructure

development of public investments in resource mobilization and spending on, during recessions

Ingersoll-Rand

Inheritance taxes

Insecurity in American system

Insider trading

Intel

Intellectual property rights

need for enforceable system of self-enforcement of in undeveloping world

Internal competition

Internally pulled economic growth

International Development Association

International Harvester

International liquidity insurance

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

balance-of-payments problems and demands on U.S. focus on third world financial crises local governments and need for reasons for aid from

Internet

Inventory changes

Inventory investment

Iran, religious fundamentalism in

Iraq

oil and religious fundamentalism in ultra power in

Iraqi war

Ireland

acquisition of technology in economic development in factor price equalization in

Islamic fundamentalism

Israel, intellectual property rights in

Israel-Palestine

Italy

corruption in foreign exchange crisis in growth rate in opposition to American ideas and customs in per capita GDP in

 

Japan

budget deficit in colonial empire of as consensus society copying process in debt reduction in deflation in economic crisis in economic development in economic failures in economic stagnation in economic structure in export-led economic growth in exports of first industrial revolution in fiscal policies in foreign direct investment in GDP of globalization and global output of housing space in inability to turn economy around intellectual property rights in monetary policies in mortgages in Nikkei index in nominal GDP in opposition to American ideas and customs in per capita GDP of per capita income of producer price index in R&D money in real growth rate in refusal to accept world responsibility Resolution and Collection Corporation in savings rate in service sector wages in stock market crash in trade surplus of United Nations and World War II and

Jaquar

Jobs, Steve

Johnson & Johnson

Joint ventures

Jordan, corruption in

Just-in-time management

 

Kashmir

Keating Five

Kennedy, John F.

Keyes, John Maynard

Kibbutzim

Kickbacks

Kidman, Nicole

Kidnapping

Kjaersgaard, Pia

K-Mart

Knowledge-based economy

Knowledge exploration

Knowledge management

Korea. See also North Korea; South Korea

savings rate in trade surplus of

Korean War

Kosovo

Krueger, Anne

Kuwait

 

Labor force

children in need for educated part-time recruitment of standards for unskilled women in

Labor-intensive products

Land ownership, systems of

Latin America. See also countries in

colonial empires in crime in global output of immigrants to savings rate in shift to export-led growth strategy in

Leapfrogging model of economic development

Left, objections from

Legal immigrants, education of

Legal systems

Le Pen, Jean-Marie

Lewontin, Richard

Liberalization

Life expectancy, in developing world

Life-saving drugs

Lincoln, Abraham

Liquidity trap

Little, Arthur D.

L.L. Bean

Local government spending

Long Term Capital Management

Low-tech industries

L recession

Luddites

Luxembourg, per capital GDP in

 

Macroeconomic policies

Magellan, Ferdinand

Malaria

Malaysia

economic crisis in economic development in foreign direct investment in

Manmade materials

Manufacturing capacity in the U.S.

Mao Zedong

Margin requirements

Market access

Market-dominant minorities

Market economies

Marshall Plan

Marx, Karl

McDonald’s

McNamara, Robert S.

Measured inflation

Mercedes

Merrill Lynch

Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Mexico

access to U.S. market economic crises in emergency loan to foreign direct investment in population growth in U.S. fears of economic collapse in

Microelectonics

Microsoft

antitrust case

Middle East, attention given to

Military power, imbalance of economic power and

Milken, Mike

Mineral rights, systems of

Miniaturization

MIT

Mitzuho Bank

Monetary polices

countercyclical need for in Europe, to prevent deflation

Mongol Empire

Mongrelization

Monopolistic power

Monroe Doctrine

Moral hazard

Morgan, John Pierpont

Mortgage rates, decline in

Motivation

Motorola

MP3 technologies

MTV

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel

Music industry, need for new business model

Muslim rule

 

Nabors Industries

Napsters

National agricultural self-sufficiency

National business firms, transition to global business firms

National economies, replacement of, by global economies

National economies of scale

National employment quotas

National Institutes of Health

Nationality, lost of

National Science Foundation

National socialism

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Native-born Americans

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Natural monopolies

Net capital inflows

Net capital outflow

Net exports

Netherlands, growth rate in

Networking effects

New York City, skyscrapers in

New Zealand

Nigeria

civil war in foreign aid for per capita GDP in

NIKE

Nikkei index

9/11 attack

Nissan

Nokia

North Korea

 

Ocean fishing

OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)

Offshore exporting activities

Offshore production

Offshore supply chain costs

Oil

Iraq and prohibition of trade and U.S. imports of value of dollar and

O’Neill, Paul

On War (Clausewitz)

OPEC oil shock

Optimism

Organ transplantation

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)

Ottoman Empire

Outsourcing, prices and

Ovid

 

Pacific Rim, export-led economics of

Pakistan

Aswali Muslims in terrorism and

Paraguay, economic crisis in

Part-time workers, benefits for

Patent infringement case

Patent recognition of pharmaceuticals in India

Patents

PC revolution

Peak penetration

Peak-to-trough stock market crashes

Per capita income of European Union

Peripheral wealthy industrial countries

global output of

Persian Gulf war

Personal consumption

Personal safety

Pessimism

Peugeot

Pharmaceuticals, patent recognition of, in India

Philippines, economic crisis in

Physical infracture

Physical property rights

Picket fence of patents

Piracy

Polaroid

Pollution

Population growth

Pornography

Poverty in third world

Preplanned infracture projects

Price-earnings (P/E)

Prices, outsourcing and

Private ownership

Privatization

of agriculture inflation and

Process technologies

Proctor & Gamble

Product cycle model of economic development

Productive capacity

Professional music

Profit maximization

Progressive income taxes

Property rights

Prostitution

Public investments in infrastructure

Purchasing power parity (PPP)

 

Quasi-socialism

 

Radio Maryja

Rainy day funds

RCA

R&D funds

Real economic activity

Recession, double dip

Recession(s)

double dip infrastructure spending during

Recovery, defining

Religious establishment

Religious fundamentalists

Religious ideology, use of, by 9/11 terrorists

Religious inheritance

Religious objectors to globalization

Renault

Repatriation of capital

Residential investment

Resolution Trust

Resource mobilization

Reverse cultural exports

Right, objections from

Risk diversification

Risk taking

River blindness

Robotics

Robots

Rockefeller, John

Rolls Royce

Roman Empire

Rome, ancient

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rovers

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

Russia. See also USSR

economic crisis in

Russian Empire

 

Saab

Sabena

Sadat, Anwar

Safe drinking water

Samsung

Saudi Arabia

standard of living in

Savings and Loan crisis

Savings and loan industry, post-crisis changes in organization and regulation of

Savings rate

Scandals, capitalistic booms and

Scanners

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Scientific leadership

Scientific principles

Sears

Second industrial revolution

Securities and Exchange Commission, formation of

Self-confidence

Self-discipline

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Singapore

Economic Development Board in economic development in education in social regulations in

Single product-focused firms

Skating on thin ice metaphor

Sloan, Alfred Pritchard

Smallpox vaccinations

Social capabilities

Social capital

Social infrastructure

Socialism

assumptions of end of lack of individual incentives in moving to capitalism national

Social organization

Social welfare state, cutbacks in European

Soft landing for value of the dollar

Software piracy

Somalia

Soros, George

Southeast Asia, economic crisis in

Southern Baptists

South Korea

anti-American sentiment in economic crisis in economic development in education in R&D spending in trade deficit in

Southwest Air

Sovereign bankruptcy

Sovereign debt

Soviet Union. See Russia; USSR

Spanish Empire

Special economic zones

Specialized management skills

Spencer, Herbert

Sri Lanka

Stability pact in Europe

Standards of living

American globalization and in Saudi Arabia substantial reductions in

Stanley Works

State government spending

State-owned enterprises (SOEs)

Steam engine

Stiglitz, Joseph

Stock market crashes

Sub-Saharan Africa. See also Africa

agriculture in attention given to economic decline in globalization and illiteracy in per capita GDP in

Subsidiaries

Success, structure and attitudes of

Sudan

Supply chain economy

Supply chain management

Surplus countries, need to stimulate economy

Survival of the fittest capitalism

Sweatshops

Swissair

Systematic deflation

Systematic industrial research and development

Systematic terrorism

 

Tabba talks

Taiwan

economic development in exports of per capita GDP of per capita income of trade surplus of

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC)

Taliban

Taxes

cuts in, by Bush inheritance progressive income reductions in Tobin value-added

Taylor, Lester

Technical retrogression

Technological gaps

Technological revolution

Technology

economic growth and global economy and shift in, in creation of global business firms

Technology transfer

Telecom industry

Telecommunications

Telegraphy, investments in

Television

Tennessee Valley Authority

Terrorism

Bush, George W. and China and 9/11 attack as Pakistan and spread of, as reaction to globalization systematic in Yenen

Thailand

economic crisis in economic development in

Third industrial revolution

Third world. See also Developing countries

communism as attractive to economic crises in economic development in economic problems in education in financial instability in globalization and immigration and imports from poverty in reshaping globalization for wages for countries in

3G licenses

3G telecommunications network

Tier one suppliers

Tobin tax

Total quality management

Tourism

Toyota

Trade. See also Free trade

abolishing impact of prohibition of, on oil restrictions on shut down of

Trademarks

Trade surplus

Transportation, U.S. Department of

Triad

TRIPS (trade-related aspects of aspects of intellectual property rights) agreement

Truman, Harry S

Truth, separating fiction from

Trypanosomiasis

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation)

 

Uganda

Ultra power

Underdeveloping world, intellectual property rights in

Unemployment insurance

United Airlines

United Kingdom. See also Great Britain

foreign direct investment in foreign exchange crisis in per capita GDP in

United Nations (UN)

financial support of need for Treaty on Women

United Nations (UN) Security Council

United States

agricultural subsidies in balance-of-payments crisis in cash wages in crash of the dot.com stock market in currency exchange standard in current account deficit in demand for imports deregulation in economic growth in economic instability in export of culture factor price equalization in financial crashes in first industrial revolution in foreign aid provided by foreign direct investment in GDP in global output of Great Depression in growth rate in handling of savings and loan crisis by home equity in household debt in imbalance of economic and military power between rest of the world and impact of end of globalization on impact of globalization on income gap between rest of world and industrial research and development in inflation in intellectual property rights system in job creation in loss of manufacturing jobs in manufacturing capacity in military power of net capital inflows in net investment position of oil imports by per capita GDP in population growth in productivity growth in recessions in role of, in global economy Savings and Loan crisis in savings rate in service sector in shrinking of manufacturing employment in skating on thin ice metaphor in standard of living in stock market crashes in technological gap between Germany and total employment costs in trade deficit of as ultra power unemployment in

U.S. Agency for International Development

U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission

United Technologies

Universal Studios

Unskilled labor

Urbanites

U recession

Uruguay, economic crisis in

Uruguay Round

U.S.-Arab relations

USS Cole, terrorist attack on

USSR. See also Russia

abandonment of communism by Cold War and movement toward free markets in transition of market economy in

U. S. Airlines

 

Vaccines

Value-added industries

Value-added taxes

Van Damm, Jean Claude

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Vespucci, Amerigo

Vietnam, software piracy in

Vietnam War

Vikings

Visteon

Vitamin A

Vivendi

Vlaams Blok (Belgian party)

Volkswagen

Volvos

V recession

 

Wage differential

Wage reduction

Wages

pushing down for third world countries

Wal-Mart

Walton family

Warfare

Washington, D.C., establishment of productivity center in

Waste disposal

Water-born diarrheal diseases

Water pollution

Water reclamation projects

Watson, Tom

Watts

Wealth effect

Weatherford International

Welch, Jack

Wisdom, extraction from experience

Women

in Afghanistan in China economic role of education and utilization of participation in the economy

Working capital

World Bank (WB)

education and need for

WorldCom

World Economic Forum (Davos)

World Health Organizatrion (WHO)

World Social Forum (Brazil 2002)

World Trade Center, 9/11 attack on

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Chinese membership in Doha round of trade negotiations need for rulings against U.S. in Uruguay Round

World War II

impact on colonialism Japan and

 

Yemen, terrorism in

Yen, as alternative to the dollar

Yugoslavia

 

Zero interest rates

Zimbabwe

Zoellick, Robert