The Rise and Decline of Nations

Index

Aggregate demand See also Macroeconomic theory

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Altruism

Apartheid See also Caste system; Class; Race

Apprenticeship See also Guilds

Arrow, Kenneth

Australia

Austria

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Balassa, Bela

Balogh, Thomas

Barro, Robert

Baumol, William

Bhagwati, Jagdish

Boers

Braudel, Fernand

Brittan, Samuel

Business associations encompassing and innovation in Great Britain, in Australia and New Zealand, in unstable societies and unemployment and inflexible prices and the Depression

Business cycles See also Macroeconomic theory

Cagan, Phillip Capital accumulation

Cartels: definition of monopsonistic. See also Business associations; Caste system; Farm organizations Labor unions; Professional associations

Caste system. See also Class

Chandler Lester V.

China

Choi Kwang

Cities: decline of medieval influence of in developing nations. See also Urbanization

Class in Great Britain. w See also Caste system Exclusivity

Clower Robert

Colbert Jean Baptiste

Collective action paradox of and the cost/benefit ratio of contributions and coercion and selective incentives and social selective incentives and the size of the group and concensus and group homogeneity. and the value of information and bargaining among group members. in politically stable societies. and the public good and economic efficiency and growth and cartelization and distribution coalitions and favored areas and political divisiveness and encompassing organizations and group decision-making and exclusivity and increasing complexity and social evolution and class and medieval guilds Collective good and the size of the group equal distribution of and the cost/benefit ratio of contributions and coercive incentives and selective incentives and social selective incentives and consensus information about vs. the public good and macroeconomics. See also Public good “Colour Bar Act” Common Market. See European Economic Community Comparative advantage Consensual bargaining

Consilience. See also Parsimony and power Constitutional procedures

Consumer Price Index “Cost-push” theory Customs unions. See also European Economic Community Integration jurisdictional

Darwin Charles The Origin of Species

Daunton M. J.

Davis-Bacon Act

Deflation: and price and wage flexibility and unemployment and recession or depression See also Depression Inflation Macroeconomic theory

Democracy

Denison Edward

Depression and rational-expectations equilibrium theory interwar (Great) and special-interest groups and wage and price flexibility and aggregate-demand management. See also Deflation Macroeconomic theory Unemployment involuntary

Disequilibrium theory . See also Macroeconomic theory

Disinflation. See Deflation

Distributional coalitions: definition of

Distribution of income

Dutch Republic

Encompassing organizations labor business political. See also Public good

Endogamy. See also Caste system Class Exclusivity

Enterprise unions. See also Encompassing organizations Labor unions

European Economic Community

Exclusivity and class and endogamy and race and guilds and labor unions and caste

Factor mobility. See also Free trade Labor mobility

Farm organizations

Feudalism

Fiorina Morris

Fog Bjarke

“Footloose” industries

Fordney-Macomber tariff

France: postwar growth of political instability of special-interest groups in jurisdictional integration of guilds in

Free trade and jurisdictional integration and economic growth and efficiency and special-interest groups and distribution of income. See also Customs unions International trade Laissez-faire Protectionism Tariffs

Friedman Milton Free to Choose

Friedman Rose: Free to Choose

General equilibrium theory. See also Macroeconomic theory

Germany. See also West Germany

Germany West. See West Germany

Government: top-heavy and the power of special-interest groups and encompassing organizations and exclusive political and military groups intervention of and economic growth and jurisdictional integration and distribution of income and laissez-faire. See also Free trade Integration jurisdictional Political stability

Grange

Great Britain slow postwar growth of inflation and unemployment in and class special-interest groups in during the Industrial Revolution and jurisdictional integration cities of guilds in and free trade protectionism and laissez-faire and the Common Market and India depression in

Grossman Herschel Group behavior. See Collective action Group external economy Group-optimality See also Pareto efficiency Guilds. See also Caste system

Harberger Arnold

Hennart Jean-Francois: “The Political Economy of Comparative Growth Rates: The Case of France”

Hernes Gudmund

Hicks John

Hinduism

Hitler Adolph

Ho Alfred: Japan s Trade Liberalization in the 's

Hoffa Jimmy

Hong Kong

Hoover Herbert

Hutt W. H.: The Economics of the Colour Bar

Implication

Implication : and slow decision-making and crowded agendas and wage and price fixing

Implication : and innovation and economic growth

Implication

Implication : and the role of government and social evolution

Implicit contracts

Incentives selective so-

cial. See also Collective action

India

Industrial Revolution

Inequality. See also Public good

Inflation and special-interest groups “core” rate of. See also Deflation Depression Prices Stagflation Wages

Innovation technological and guilds

Integration jurisdictional

International Air Transport Association

International trade. See also Customs unions Free trade Laissez-faire Protectionism Tariffs

Italy

Japan postwar growth of special-interest groups in

Jefferson Thomas

Jorgenson Dale

Journal of Law and Economics

Jurisdictional integration. See Integration jurisdictional

Keidanren

Keynes John Maynard General Theory Treatise on Money. See also Keynesian economics

Keynesian economics incompleteness and lack of generality of and wages and stagflation and unemployment and aggregate demand impact of. See also Macroeconomic theory

Kindleberger Charles

Kisch Herbert

Korea

Kreinen Mordechai

Labor mobility. See also Factor mobility Free trade Labor unions

Labor unions: and selective incentives organization of encompassing decision-making procedures of and new technologies and the reallocation of resources and complex understandings in West Germany in France in Great Britain in Sweden and Norway in the United States and “footloose” industries and immigration and customs unions and protectionism in South Africa in unstable developing nations in Keynesian theory and involuntary employment and wage flexibility and the Great Depression

Laissez-faire. See also Free trade International trade Protectionism Tariffs

Lehner Franz: “Pressure Politics and Economic Growth: Olson” Theory and the Swiss Experience”

Lewis Arthur

Little I. M. D.

Lobbying organizations

Logic of Collective Action The

London

Louis XIV

Lundberg Erik

Machiavelli Niccol

MacGowan Daniel J.

Macrae Norman

Macroeconomic theory Keynesian and microeconomics incompleteness of disequilibrium model of rational-expectations equilibrium model of and monetary policy monetarist and stagflation and implicit contracts and “cost-push” and involuntary unemployment criteria for persuasiveness of and business cycles and economic history and wage and price flexibility and a general equilibrium system and inflation and depression generality of and real output and aggregate demand and government programs

Malinvaud Edmond

Margolis Howard n

Markets unconstrained (competitive). See also Free trade

Marx Karl

Meade James

Meiji restoration

Mercantilism. See also Guilds

Moghul empire

Monetary policy. See also Macroeconomic theory

Morse Hosea Ballou: The Guilds of China

Mueller Dennis

Multinational firms

Murrell Peter

Napoleon

Nationalist Party (South African)

National Recovery Administration

Nehru Jawaharlal: The Discovery of India

Netherlands

New York City

New Zealand

Noll Roger Norris-LaGuardia Act Norway

Okun Arthur: Equality and Efficiency:

The Big Trade-Off

Olson Mancur: The Logic of Collective Action Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Pareto efficiency. See also Group optimality

Parsimony and power: as criteria for explanation. See also Consilience

Patinkin Don

Peak associations. See also Business associations Encompassing organizations

Perverse policy syndrome

Phelps Edmund

Phillips curve

Political stability: and economic growth in France and the accumulation of special-interest groups in Great Britain and the public good in Switzerland in Sweden and Norway in the United States in Germany and Italy in Japan in India and consistently unstable societies

Populist movement

Power of theories and explanations. See Parsimony and power

Price index

Prices: fixing of non-market-clearing farm manufacturing flexibility of. See also Deflation Inflation

Professional associations medical legal ex-

Professional associations (continued) clusivity of. See also Special interest groups

Protectionism. See also Free trade International trade Laissez-faire Tariffs

Public good: equal distribution of and compulsory incentives and the cost/benefit ratio of contributions vs. the collective good of a group and encompassing organizations and political stability and distribution of income and competitive markets

“Putting-out system”

Pythian-Adams Charles: “Urban Decay in Late Medieval England”

Race

Rational expectations Rational-expectations equilibrium theory See also Macroeconomic theory Real output Recession. See also Deflation Depression Stagflation Revolution. See Political stability Ricardo David Rohatyn Felix Roosevelt Franklin

Sachs Jeffrey

Scherer F. M.

Schultze Charles

Schwartz Anna

Selective incentives. See Incentives selective

Sella Domenico

Singapore

Smith Adam

Smoot-Hawley tariff

Social selective incentives. See Incentives selective

Solow Robert

South Africa

South African Labour Party

Soviet-type societies

Soviet Union

Stagflation. See also Inflation Unemployment involuntary Suburbs. See also Cities Sweden Switzerland

Taft-Hartley Act

Taiwan

Tariffs. See also Customs unions Free trade International trade Laissez-faire Protectionism

Temin Peter Jacksonian Democracy

Textile industry

Thompson E. P.

Tocqueville Alexis de

Top-heavy governments and small groups and the influence of cities and distribution of income and perverse policy syndrome and the bureaucracy and students and landed families and the growth of poor countries. See also Political stability

Totalitarianism. See also Top-heavy governments

Trade associations. See Business associations

Transportation in developing nations

Truman Edwin

Tucker Josiah

Unemployment: in West Germany and Japan in Great Britain in the United States in Taiwan. See also Unemployment involuntary

Unemployment involuntary: and Keynesian economics and macroeconomic theory and the “search” model and rational-expectations equilibrium theory and implicit contracts and low skills of productive capacity definition of and special-interest groups and inflation and deflation classical and wage and price flexibility and real output and government in historical perspective and aggregate demand and the Great Depression “natural rate” of. See also Depression

Unions labor. See Labor unions United Provinces of the Netherlands

United States growth in special-interest groups in economic growth and duration of states in and the Confederate states and interstate migration and jurisdictional integration depression in unemployment in inflation and deflation in Urbanization. See also Cities

Wages: fixing of and capital in Keynes flexibility of and implicit contracts and “costrpush” and marginal cost. See also Deflation Inflation Labor unions

Wallich Henry

Weber Max

Weintraub Sidney

Western Europe

West Germany postwar growth of special-interest groups in

Whewell William

Wiener Martin: English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit

Woodward C. Vann

Zollverein