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Aboriginal Australians, 8–9, 12, 13, 18, 19–20, 92, 169, 173
accounting, 13
Achilles, 36–8
Adults in the Room, 3
Aegina, 3, 4, 27
Africa, 21
Agamemnon, 35–6
agoranomy, 35, 38
agriculture
commodification, 33–4
surplus, 11–22
Ajax, 36–8
Amazon, 10, 28, 124
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 110
Apple, 10, 28, 117, 122, 124, 177
arbitrage, 136–9
Archimedes, 197
Aristotle, 123
armies, 16
artificial intelligence, 107
assembly lines, 121
Athens, 5, 149, 172
Attwood, Margaret, 5
Australia
Aborigines, 8–9, 12, 13, 18, 19–20, 92, 169, 173
environment, 169, 173
Great Depression (1929–39), 65
Reserve Bank, 75
unemployment, 91
automation, 107, 116–33
Azande, 194
bacteria, 18–19
Bangladesh, 120–21, 182
Bank of England, 75
banking, 65–89
crashes, 70–89, 100, 130
money, creation of, 68–89, 151–6
and state, 74–89
bankruptcy, 79–82, 130
biochemical war, 19, 20
Birmingham, England, 84
Bitcoin, 157–62
Blade Runner, 114, 125–7, 129
Blake, William, 46
blood market, 5, 30–31
Bloomberg screens, 139
Bombay, India, 41
bonds, 87
boomerangs, 18
Brecht, Berthold, 5
Brexit, 4
Britain, see under United Kingdom
Brothers Grimm, 51, 114
bureaucracy, 16
Byron, George Gordon, 109
capital goods, 38
capitalism, 4
Catholicism, 61–2
central banks, 74–7, 88, 100, 152, 155–6
Chaplin, Charlie, 121
China, 21, 37, 40, 45, 122
cholera, 19, 109
Christianity, 60–62, 165
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 62–3, 129
Churchill, Winston, 180
cigarettes, 139–48, 152–6, 162
Clyde river, 48
coal mining, 48
commodities, 28–49
compass, 40
Cornwall, England, 48
counterfeit coins, 149–50
credit, 15
crises, economic, see economic crises
currency, 14–15, 77, 139–63
cigarettes as, 139–48, 152–6, 162
counterfeit, 149–50
digital, 156–62
metal, 14, 15, 148, 149
v. money, 153–6
shells as, 14, 15, 77, 148, 149
trust in, 148–50
debt, 5, 13–16, 51–63, 100–102, 154
banking, 65–89
defaulting, 141
exchange value, loan of, 67–70
money market, 100–102
public, 85–9, 151, 154
redemption, 60
writing off, 79–82
debtors’ prisons, 80
deflation, 142–6, 160–61
democracy
and automation, 130–33, 180
and economic knowledge, 2
and environment, 179–83
and money, 162
deregulation, 195
Diamond, Jared, 5
Dickens, Charles, 62–3
digital currency, 156–62
disease, 18–19, 109, 128, 165–7, 183
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 51–4, 56, 59–61, 111, 166, 172
Easter Island, 168–9, 172
economic crises, 70–89, 100, 129–30, 156
global financial crisis (2008–), 100, 130, 156
Great Depression (1929–39), 65–6, 81, 100, 196
Greek debt crisis (2009–), 65, 80, 81, 91, 196
economics, ideology of, 192–7
economy, etymology of, 32, 33
Ecuador, 173–4
Egypt, ancient, 18, 111–12
enclosures, 42–4, 54–5, 83–4
England, 40–44, 48, 54–5, 120; see also United Kingdom
environment, 165–83
equilbirum, 138
eudaimonia, 189
Eurasia, 19–21
European Central Bank, 75
Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan, 194
exchange value, 29–38, 47–8, 53, 61, 67, 96–7, 167
of environment, 167–83
loaning of, 67–70
of money, 141, 142–4, 145
and technology, 122, 124–8
experiential value, 30–38, 47–8, 52, 96–7
of environment, 167, 168, 169, 173, 177
extinction, 166, 168
factories, 39, 43, 45–7, 48, 58, 113, 120–21
fallacy of composition, 5
Faust (Goethe), 59–62
Federal Reserve, 75
Ferrari, 96
feudalism, 32, 39, 41–57, 176–7
flu, 19, 109
Ford, 177
France, 135–9
Frankenstein (Shelley), 109–14, 116, 120, 128, 166, 172
G20, 156
Geneva Conventions, 135
geography, 19–22
Germany, 135–48, 152–6
ghost in the machine, 88–9, 154
Gift Relationship, The (Titmuss), 5
global financial crisis (2008–), 100, 130, 156
global trade, 40–44
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 59–62, 114
gold, 148, 188–9
Gold Standard, 161–2
goods, 28–40
Google, 124
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 65–6, 81
Great Barrier Reef, 169
Great Contradiction, 47–8
Great Depression (1929–39), 65–6, 81, 100, 196
Great Need, 91
Great Reversal, 54–7, 61, 106
Great Transformation (Polanyi), 5
Great Transformation, 40, 130–33, 169
Greece
Civil War (1946–9), 162–3
debt crisis (2009–), 65, 80, 81, 91, 196
mythology, 35–6, 102–5, 116–20
Oracle of Delphi, 194
Grexit, 4
Guns, Steel and Germs (Diamond), 5
HALPEVAM, 186–90, 197–8
Hammond, Will, 3
Harry Potter (Rowling), 186
Heilbroner, Robert, 5
Hephaestus, 36
Homer, 35–8
housing, 73–4, 91–3, 96
Icarus, 116–20, 122
ideology, 17–18, 24, 192–5
idiotis, 172
Ikaria, 162
Inca civilisation, 18
India, 41
Industrial Revolution, 45–7, 58, 61, 70, 169, 192
inequality, 7–25
and geography, 19–22
and Industrial Revolution, 47–8
and oligarchy, 22–3
and religion, 17–18
inflation, 142–6, 150
intellectual property, 122
interest, 52, 60–63, 66, 70, 71, 101, 144–6
Internet, 10, 157
iPad, 10, 28
iPhone, 117, 122
Iraq, 13
isegoria, 182
Islam, 60, 165
Jamaica, 48
Japan, 41
Judaism, 135, 165
Keynes, John Maynard, 5, 132
Kostas, Captain, 27–9, 31, 52
labour market, 39, 40, 42–4, 47, 58, 61, 91–107, 195
automation, 116–33
unemployment, 91–100
London, England, 84
Luddites, 120
machines, 112–33
Makronissos, 162
Maldives, 182
Manchester, England, 48, 84
Marathonas Beach, 27
market price, 29–38
market society, 4, 10, 27–48, 110
and environment, 167–83
exchange v. experiential value, 29–38, 47–8, 52–3, 96–7, 167, 169, 173
genesis of, 38–48
ideology of, 192–5
labour market, 39, 40, 42–4, 47, 58, 61, 91–107, 116–33
money market, 100–107, 142–63
and technology, 107, 112–33
Marlowe, Christopher, 51–4, 56, 59–61, 111, 166, 172
Marx, Karl, 5, 116, 117, 121
Mastercard, 157
mathematical models, 195–6
Matrix, The, 114–16, 122, 127–9, 165–6, 183, 188, 191
mechanization, 107, 112–33
Melanesia, 37
Mephistopheles, 51–4, 59–62, 111
Mesopotamia, 13, 77, 149, 192
metal currency, 14, 15, 148, 149
Microsoft, 124
Midas, 119
Mill, John Stuart, 188
Modern Times, 121
Moe, Jacob, 3
money
creation of, 68–89, 151–6
v. currency, 153–6
democratization of, 162
market, 100–107, 142–63
origin of, 14
as political, 148–63
Nakamoto, Satoshi, 157–8
Napoleonic wars (1803–15), 110
natural unemployment, 195
Nazi Germany (1933–45), 135–48, 152–6
Netherlands, 40, 110
New Deal, 161
Odysseus, 36–8
Oedipus, 102–5
oikonomia, 32, 33
oligarchy, 22–3, 192
optimism v. pessimism, 93–106
oracles, 194
Ovid, 36
Parthenon, Athens, 18
Patmos, 91, 92, 96
Payback (Attwood), 5
Peloponnese Mountains, 3, 27
pessimism v. optimism, 93–106
Phoenicia, 37
Plato, 123
poietis, 172
Polanyi, Karl, 5
police, 16
political money, 148–63
pollution, 178–9
Portugal, 40
power of prophecy, 103–5
prisoners of war (POWs), 135–48, 152–6, 181
production process, 38–40
automation of, 116–33
profit, 52–63, 73, 111–12
property rights, 16
prophecy, power of, 103–5
Protestantism, 61–2
public debt, 85–9, 151, 154
Pyramids, 18
Radford, Richard, 135–48, 152–6, 181
recycling, 65–89
Red Cross, 135–48, 152–6
redemption, 60
religion, 16–18, 24, 60–62, 165, 192
Reserve Bank, 75
Romanticism, 111
Rome, ancient, 36, 151
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 161
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 93–5, 99, 102, 146
rule of law, 151
Sahara Desert, 21
science, 1
Scotland, 40, 48
Second World War (1939–45), 135–48, 152–6
Shanghai, China, 40
Shelley, Mary, 109–14, 116, 120, 128, 166, 172
shells, 14, 15, 77, 148, 149
shipbuilding, 40, 48
shopping malls, 191
silk, 40
Singapore, 86
Sisyphus, 119
slavery, 18, 32, 39, 45, 48, 112
smallpox, 19
Smith, Adam, 193
socialism, 175
Socrates, 123, 188
solar panels, 178
Sophocles, 102–5
Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The (Goethe), 114
Spain, 40
speech, 11
spices, 41
spread, 137
stag hunt, 93–5, 99, 102, 146
Star Trek, 112, 122, 124, 129, 132
state, 16–18, 20, 24
and banking, 74–89, 101
and environmental regulation, 178–9
and ideology, 17–18, 24, 192
and money, 148–63
and surplus, 16–18, 20
and taxation, 83–7, 151–2, 154
steam engines, 45, 46, 58, 111
Steinbeck, John, 65–6, 81
surplus, 12–25
and disease, 18–19
Great Reversal, 54–7, 61
and ideology, 17–18, 24, 192
and oligarchy, 22–3
and state, 16–18, 20
and technology, 18, 20
sweatshops, 121
Sweet Porridge (Brothers Grimm), 114
swords, 41
Syria, 13
taxation, 83–7, 151–2, 154
technology, 18, 20, 111–33
Terminator, The, 114
Tesla, 124
Thailand, 9
Thoreau, Henry, 190
tin mining, 48
Titmuss, Richard, 5
tomatoes, 96
trade unions, 98–9, 195
Trojan War, 35
trout, 170–72, 175–6
Trump, Donald, 4
typhus, 19
unemployment, 91–100, 195
United Kingdom
Australia, colonisation of, 8–9, 19–20
Bank of England, 75
Brexit, 4
debtors’ prisons, 80
enclosures, 42–4, 54–5, 83–4
feudalism, 41–4, 45–6
global trade, 40–44
Gold Standard, 161
Great Depression (1929–39), 65
Great Reversal, 54–7, 61, 106
Industrial Revolution, 45–7, 58, 110
Luddites, 120
Second World War (1939–45), 135–48, 152–6
slavery, 45, 48
United States
Federal Reserve, 75
Gold Standard, 161–2
Great Depression (1929–39), 65–6, 196
science, war on, 1
Trump administration (2017–), 4
usury, 60, 66
V for Vendetta, 191
Vietnam, 21
virtual currency, 14–15
viruses, 165–7, 183
Visa, 157
Wales, 48
Watt, James, 45, 46, 58, 111
welfare state, 151
Wilde, Oscar, 31, 175
women’s rights, 32
wool, 40, 41, 43–4, 54–5, 66–7
Worldly Philosophers, The (Heilbroner), 5
writing, 13
xenos, 198
Yokohama, Japan, 41
Yorkshire, England, 48
Zeus, 119
Zimbabwe, 21