List of Figures

1. Figure 0.1    The eight ‘I’s model or ‘Kythera’
2. Figure 1.1    Speed against truth
3. Figure 2.1    General government debt (2015) – total debt as a percentage of GDP
4. Figure 2.2    US national debt – $617 billion spike in five months
5. Figure 2.3    US inflation from 1775 to 2015 – annual percentage change in overall US consumer-price index
6. Figure 2.4    Short- and long-term interest rates
7. Figure 2.5    Household debt (2015) – total debt as a percentage of net disposable income
8. Figure 3.1    Male prime-age (25–64) workers’ median tenure trends, by age (1951–2012)
9. Figure 3.2    The share of Americans living without a partner has increased, especially among young adults
10. Figure 3.3    Productivity change in the non-farm business sector (1947–2016)
11. Figure 4.1    Howard Gardner’s eight signs of intelligence
12. Figure 4.2    Axis of leadership challenge
13. Figure 5.1    Foreign-born population and percentage of total population for the United States (1850–2010)
14. Figure 7.1    LAB Brain Model
15. Figure 7.2    Gender of commenter names: international and metropolitan news services (top 100 commenters)