A
Althusser, Louis, 130
Anders, Günther, 5, 9, 11, 19–20, 67, 82
apocalyptic perspective, 66, 68–69, 82, 85–87
Arendt, Hannah, 1, 5, 9, 11, 55
Arminius, Jacobus, 96
Augustine, 2
B
bad faith, xvi, xx, 90, 101, 122–23, 125, 160n56; Calvinism and, 112, 114–15, 117–19
Bayle, Pierre, 2
Beaune, Jean-Claude, 71
Bergson, Henri, 110, 140, 159n32
Blob, The, 130
Bourdieu, Pierre, xviii
Bush, George W., 44
C
Calvinism, xvi, 2, 92–96, 98, 100, 101–2, 107–24 passim
Canetti, Elias, 50
capitalism, xii, xv, 8, 9, 11, 14, 53–55; Calvinism and, 92–94, 100–101; panics and, 16–17; survival of, 65, 68, 84–86
catastrophes: Air France flight 447, 26–27; Chernobyl nuclear accident, 155n13; Chilean mining accident, 75–76; enlightened doomsaying and, 145; Fukushima disaster, 24–25, 67; Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, 5, 11, 67; Hurricane Katrina, 3–4; 9/11, 26; tsunami of 2004, 3–4
catastrophism, xv, 69, 78, 80, 84–87, 128–29
causalist hypothesis, 26–27, 91, 108, 111, 116, 119
Christianity, 13, 95–96. See also Calvinism; Catholicism; Lutheranism; Puritanism
climate change, 38, 39–40, 43, 44–45, 62, 66–67
Cosmides, Leda, and John Tooby, 43–44
counterfactual propositions, 24–26, 30–31, 98, 108–11
Cournot, Augustin, 151n7
D
Delors, Jacques, 151n12
Derrida, Jacques, 120
desacralization, xiv, 6, 9, 13
Disselkamp, Annette, 95, 97–98, 99, 157n1
dominant strategy. See strategic dominance principle
doomsaying, “enlightened,” 83, 85, 87, 128, 145
Dumouchel, Paul, 13
Durkheim, Émile, 6, 12, 21, 50, 62–63
E
ecology. See under Economy
economic equilibrium, xiv, 10, 14, 23, 28–29, 46
economic theory, xi–xii, xiv–xx, 12, 25–29, 52–56, 61, 68, 107–8; economics of conventions in, 151n6; Marxist, 22, 27; neoclassical, 8, 10, 22–23, 46, 150n3; profession of, 148n10; value and, 155n10, 161n76. See also health care economics; metaphysics
Economy: ecology and, 43–44, 54; l'economie and, xviii, xx, 148n8; “economystification” and, 34, 56, 129; ethics and, 17–19, 55, 111; evil and, xvi, 6–20; imitation and, 46; religion and, 6, 56, 94, 98, 109; the sacred and, xi, xiii, xiv, 9, 13; violence and, xiv, 8–11, 15
Eichmann, Adolf, 5
emergent phenomena, 130
ethics. See under Economy
Eusebius of Caesarea, 131
evil, xiv, 1–6, 11, 13–14, 18–19, 32, 53. See also under Economy
existentialism, 122
exteriority, xiv, 15, 21, 28, 59, 60, 65, 117
F
fatalism, xvii, 31–32, 93–96, 98–100, 102, 107, 110, 127–30
Faujas, Alain, 151n13
Ferguson, Adam, 150n29
finance, etymology of, 153n41
Forbidden Planet, x
Ford, Henry, 52
forecasting. See predictions
Frankfurt School, 9
Frankl, Viktor, 149n20
Frazer, James George, 12
free will, 30, 35, 94–96, 107, 114, 128, 139
Freud, Sigmund, 12, 49, 113, 154n55
Friedman, Milton, xvii, 18, 19
futurism, 34–35, 39, 90–91, 151n14
G
game theory, xvii, 23, 56, 136
Girard, René, 11, 12–13, 46; on Camus, 120–21
global warming. See climate change
Godelier, Maurice, 150n3
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 14
Gorz, André, 9
Great Recession, 7, 33, 51, 152n18, 152n20, 156n20, 156n23
H
Haller, William, 96
Hangman Paradox, 83–84, 157n25
Hayek, Friedrich, 10–11, 12, 17, 45, 130
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 13, 89
Heidegger, Martin, 9, 115, 123, 161n68
Hobbes, Thomas, ix, xii, 56, 58–59, 136, 147n1
Hocart, Arthur Maurice, 12
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 145
holism, 62
Husserl, Edmund, 117
I
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 39–40, 45, 155n10
invisible hand, 3, 12, 21, 149n23
“irrational exuberance,” 69, 84–85, 87
J
Jankélévitch, Vladimir, 5
Jouvenel, Bertrand de, 39, 151n14
K
Kahneman, Daniel, and Amos Tversky, 41–43
Kant, Immanuel, 56, 118, 131, 136
Keeble, N. H., 96
Keynes, John Maynard, 8–9, 10, 15, 22, 45–46, 51–52, 61, 153n37
L
La Bruyère, Jean de, 77
La Fontaine, Jean de, 77
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 109
Lausanne School, 81
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 2–3, 7, 115–16, 129
Lesourne, Jacques, 152n15
Liaisons dangereuses, Les (Laclos), 102–3, 158n28
M
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 13
managerialism, ix, xi, 63, 101, 119
Mandelbrot, Benoît, 79, 81–82, 84. See also parable of the receding shore
Mandeville, Bernard de, 14
market economy, ix–x, 14–18, 21–22, 27–28, 33–36, 45–46, 50, 129–30, 147n5
market socialism, 29
metaphysics, xiii, xvii, 2–3, 26–28, 32–33, 109–10, 116, 128; economic theory and, xiv, 23, 25–26, 29
mimetic desire, 46
Montaigne, Michel de, 65
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, xiv, 10, 11
Monti, Mario, x
Münchausen, Baron, xv, 22, 36, 150n1
Murakami, Haruki, 67
mutually assured destruction (MAD), 142–44
N
neoclassical theory. See under economic theory
Newcomb's paradox, xvi–xvii, 105–7, 123, 127–28, 132–36, 138–39, 159n29, 159n31
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 22, 75, 147n1
noise, order and complexity from, 46–49
normal (“Gaussian”) distribution, 79–80, 156n17
Nozick, Robert, 159n29
O
P
panics, 16–17, 49–50, 119, 128
parable of the receding shore, 81–82, 84, 156n20
Pareto distribution, 80–81. See also fractal distribution
Pareto, Vilfredo, 81
Pascal's wager, 68
Plato, 31
Pogo, 130
politics, ix–xv, 28, 38, 58–59, 63; Economy and, 65, 89–90; “economystification” and, 34, 129
Pólya, George, 153n31
prediction, 29–36, 128–29, 132, 140–41; biblical prophecy and, 31–32, 34, 36–37. See also futurism; Newcomb's paradox
prices, xiv, 14–15, 18, 21, 22–29, 45, 51, 150n3
“projected time,” 110, 116, 128–29, 139–42, 144, 157n1
prophecy, biblical, 29–37. See also under prediction
Protestant ethic. See Calvinism
psychology, 41–44, 61, 94, 103–4, 106
R
rational choice theory, 23, 68, 91, 93–94, 98, 100–105, 109, 111, 112, 136, 162n5
Rawls, John, 8
Reagan, Ronald, 36
regulation, 14–15, 17, 50, 130, 152n20
Rostow, W. W., 92
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 3–4, 5, 10, 12, 18, 19, 58, 59, 129
S
sacred, the. See under Economy; violence and the sacred
Sargent, Thomas J., and Christopher A. Sims, xi–xii
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 90, 110, 112–13, 114–23, 125, 140, 161n68; on Camus, 120–22
Savage, Leonard, 132
Say's law, 153n37
Searle, John, 151n8
self-deception, xix–xx, 112–13, 119
self-transcendence, xiv–xv, 11, 119, 152n20, 153n38; economic, and panic, 13–17; Economy and, 90, 101, 125; in Sartre, 116–17
Smith, Adam, xviii–xx, 3, 4, 8, 11–12, 16, 18, 20, 45, 112, 119, 123–24, 161n70
specularity, 16, 23, 27, 34, 82, 84, 150n5
Steuart, James, 10
strategic dominance principle, 91, 93, 94, 98–100, 102–6, 108–9, 111, 127–28, 132
sure-thing principle, 132–33, 136
T
Tocqueville, Alexis de, xix, 18–19, 60–61, 86
V
violence and the sacred, 12–13, 122
W
Walras, Léon, 10, 14, 28–29, 45, 81, 151n7
Walter, Christian, and Michel de Pracontal, 152n18, 156n23
Weber, Max, xvi–xvii, 90, 91–102, 106–14, 119, 127, 157n1, 157n3, 159n31
William of Ockham, 135
Wilcox, Fred M., x
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 36
Z
Zoellick, Robert, 151n12