Java, 111
J.C. Penney, 118
J.C. Williams Group Ltd., 134
JetBlue Airways, 36-38, 443, 444, 446-47
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 84
Jews, 430, 436, 458, 463
Jiang Mianheng, 423
Jiang Zemin, 423
p. 482 jobs: creation of, 287
untouchable, 237, 423
Jobs, Steve, 55
Jockey International, 143
Johns Hopkins University, 15-16, 113, 162, 242, 278, 293, 462
Johnson, Lyndon B., 276
Johnson, Paul, 328
Joint Chiefs of StafF, 38
Jordan, 273, 316, 34-49, 366, 461-62
Juhaiman movement, 327
just-in-time inventory program, 135
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
K
Kai Fu Li, 266-68
Kanagawa, Treaty of ( 1854), 139
Kannan, P. V., 25, 184-85, 263
Karatnycky, Adrian, 395, 396
Katz, Larry, 289
Kennedy, John F., 254, 256, 278-79, 283, 284, 290
Kernan, Joe, 206
Keyhole, 159
Khalsa, Gurujot Singh, 108
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 404
Khosla, Vinod, 105
Khrushchev, Nikita, 278
Kiuchi, Masao, 140-41
Klamath Communications, 180
Klausner, Rick, 381, 382
Klein, Michael, 317
Kleiner Perkins, 56
Kletzer, Lori, 294-95
Kmart, 133
Knight, Bob, 251
Konica Minolta Technologies bizhub, 174-76, 188
Koo, Richard C, 262-63
Koon, Tracy, 272-75
Korea, see North Korea; South Korea
Kray, Art, 315
Krishnakumar, N., 426
Kuehn, Kurt, 146
Kulkarni, Vivek, 31-32, 427
Kurtz, Howard, 93
Kuwait, 404
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
L
labor markets, flexibility of, 246
Landes, David, 324, 326
Landor Associates, 180
Laos, 365
Law, Lalita, 376-77, 465, 466
Lawrence, Robert, 284, 293
Lebanon, 326, 345, 423
Lenin, V. I., 395, 396
Leninists, see Islamo-Leninists
Lenovo, 210-11
Leonard, Andrew, 86, 89
Leopold, Aldo, 412
Levin, Richard C., 247-48
Levine, Joshua S., 296
Levitt, Arthur, 453-54
LG.Philips LCD, 417
Lih, Andrew, 94-95
Linux, 91, 97-99, 101, 103, 261
Litan, Robert E., 293-95
Liteon, 417
Lithuania, 250, 251
Los Angeles Police Department, 403
LRN, 158, 360-63
Lucent Technologies, 29, 68, 112-13, 163
lump of labor theory, 227
Lynx, 86
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
M
Ma, Mary, 210
Macedonia, 321
macroeconomic reform, 313-15, 319-20
Mahon, Karen, 218-19
Mail Boxes Etc., 144
malaria, 376, 379, 381
Malaysia, 95, 117, 208, 326, 356, 399-400, 409, 412, 414-18, 422, 435, 445
Mali, 98
Malleswaram College for Women, 26
Mandelbaum, Michael, 113, 277-78, 283, 462, 463
Mankiw, N. Gregory, 199
Manpower Development and Training program, 279
Mao Zedong, 116, 328, 436
Marshall, Will, 286
Marshall Plan, 50
Marx, Karl, 201-4, 222
Marx, Tzvi, 438
Marxism-Leninism, 395, 396
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 96, 104, 113, 244, 254, 261, 267
Mattel Inc., 129
McCaw Cellular, 58
McCool, Rob, 86
McCue, Mike, 68
McDonald’s Corporation, 40-42, 195, 241, 298-300, 384, 389, 420, 424-25, 427
MCI, 68
McKinsey & Company, 32, 245, 363, 364
Medicaid, 215, 285
p. 483 Medicare, 285
Medline, 162
Meghna, C. M., 24
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu, 387
Memphis, University of, 467
Mercedes-Benz, 123-24
Merrill Lynch, 449
Messman, Jack, 91
Mexico, 20, 115, 117, 138, 296, 300, 309-10, 313, 316, 320, 323, 417
Center of Research for Development, 336
Central Bank of, 310
economic reforms in, 314
intangibles of economic development in, 330-36
micromultinationals, 356
Microsoft, 3, 65, 81, 163, 194, 217, 231, 233, 234, 253, 274-75, 463
in China, 34, 266-68, 365
Dell and, 418
in India, 22
Internet Explorer, 62, 63, 99
in Jordan, 348
MSN, 56, 171
MSN Web Search, 153
Office, 98, 100, 188
and open-sourcing, 81-83, 97-102, 280
Windows, 28, 52-54, 57, 60, 62, 64, 71, 73, 74, 80, 97, 99, 102, 161, 188, 226
Word, 76-78, 187, 466
middle class, 375-76, 384, 420
MindTree, 360-62, 426
Minnesota Conceal and Carry Law, 371-72
Minow, Nell, 67-68
MIPS (millions of instructions per second), 163
Mitsubishi, 196
Mitsuishi, Tamon, 169-70
Mobility, 417
Moguls, 325
Mohegan Sun, 20
Mohammad, Mahathir, 399-400
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 444, 448
Mondragon, 264
Mongolia, 366
Montenegro, 320, 321
Morgan Stanley, 63, 120
Mormons, 37, 446
Morocco, 316, 392
morphing, 242
Morris Air, 37, 446
Mosaic, 58-59, 70
Motev, Mohammed, 467
Motorola, 168, 417
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 445-46
Mozilla Foundation, 99-100
MphasiS, 12
MP3 player, 43
MRIs, 16
MSI, 416
M-System, 417
Muhammad, 309, 397
Mullis, Ina, 271-72
multinational corporations, 209-10, 356
see also specific companies
multipurpose devices, 164-65, 174-75
Mundie, Craig J., 53-54, 56, 76, 81, 100-102, 163, 217
Muslims, 9, 55, 310-12, 325-29, 385, 392-407, 430, 432, 445, 456
in India, 456-59, 464
oil and, 461-63
terrorists, 392, 431-32 (see also al-Qaeda)
Mussolini, Benito, 395
Myers, Gen. Richard, 38
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
N
Naím, Moisés, 323
Nanya, 416
Napster, 70, 164
Naqvi, Mujteba, 414
Nasdaq, 209, 245, 345, 346, 463
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 256, 465
National Basketball Association (NBA), 250-52
National Cancer Institute, 381
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), 58, 86-87
National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the Twenty-first Century, 256-57
National Foundation for American Policy, 270
National Guard, 42, 48, 93
National Institute for Science and Technology, 268
National Institutes of Health (NIH), 247, 269
National Science Board (NSB), 257-60
National Science Foundation (NSF), 198, 255, 256, 268, 281
NATO, 39
Naval Historical Center
, 139
Navy, U.S., 20, 409
Nazis, 397
NEC, 417
Neeleman, David, 37-38, 443, 446-47
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 50, 104
Neland, Glenn E., 422-23
NeoIT, 239, 459
Netherlands, 9, 95, 320
NetMeeting, 187
Netscape, 56-59, 61-64, 70, 71, 73, 79, 81, 83, 86, 105, 149, 161, 176, 231
New Frontier, 277
p. 484 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), 245
New York University, 465
New Zealand, 320, 374
Nielsen/NetRatings, 198
Nigeria, 320, 392, 460
Nike, 143, 144
Nikon, 149
Nilekani, Nandan, 5-8, 11, 28, 141-42, 238, 429, 447
9/11, 8, 178, 198, 258, 392, 395, 400, 433, 441-53, 456, 463, 469
airlines and, 296
Bush urges consumption after, 252
Exodus from New York following, 436
Internet and, 435
Iraq war and, 386
Islamo-Leninism and, 395, 396, 402
middle-class Arabs and, 403
response of ordinary people to challenge of, 72
visa issuance after, 259, 260
Nixon, Richard M., 284
Nokia, 179, 425
Nomura Research Institute, 262
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 365-66, 388-89, 391
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 199, 296, 310, 313, 330, 331, 334, 336
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 444
North Korea, 277, 315, 419, 420, 423
Northwest Venture Partners, 111, 372
Norton Utilities, 418
Norway, 320
Novell, 74, 91
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 254
nuclear weapons, 419, 425
terrorists and, 426-37
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
O
O’Bannon, Frank, 206
Office Depot, 299
offshoring, 114-17, 161, 176, 227, 235
Ogilvy & Mather, 180
Ohio Pilot Store, 445
Ohio State University, 117
Ohmae, Kenichi, 32, 117
oil, 407-12, 460-63
O’Keefe, Sean, 256
Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST), 244-45
Old Left, 385
Olympic Games, 250-51, 303
Oman, 320
OneStat.com, 100
openknowledge.org, 96
OpenOffice.org, 98
open protocols, 61
open-sourcing, 81-103, 161, 171, 176, 429
free software movement and, 96-102
intellectual commons form of, 85-95
Opsware Inc., 70, 231-32
Oracle, 81
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 259-60
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 410
Ortiz, Guillermo, 310, 323
O’Sullivan, Fran, 210
Otellini, Paul, 232
Outlook Express, 187
outsourcing, 38, 40, 161, 171, 176, 199, 227, 350, 357
of anchored jobs, 239
to Cambodia, 363-67
to China, 32-36, 113, 247-49
digital technology and, 344
to grow, 360-63
to India, 3-8, 11-32, 35, 38, 103-15, 187-91, 228, 260-61, 290, 426
to Russia, 194-97
Oxford University, 193
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
P
Pacific Design, 417
Page, Larry, 153-54
Paine Webber, 120
Pakistan, 50, 55, 315, 320, 331, 346, 366, 404, 419, 423, 425-31, 444, 445, 456, 457, 459
Palestinians, 349, 392, 431, 466-67
PalmPilot, 97, 152, 167
Panama, 319, 321
Papa John’s pizza, 143
parenting, 303-5
Pasteur, Louis, 113
patents, 30, 217-18, 269, 397
Paul, Vivek, 30, 105-6, 109, 110, 236, 246, 356, 383-84, 426-28
PayPal, 77-78, 146
PCs, 52-54, 60, 61, 64, 100, 107, 108, 168, 186, 217
in China, 127, 210
in India, 103, 187
Internet and, 56-59, 62, 71, 73, 179
wireless, 160
work flow and, 161, 176
Pearl, Danny, 431
Pearlstein, Steven, 263-64
Peking University, 247
pensions, 285-86
Pentagon, 39
Perkowski, Jack, 114, 116, 120-22, 124-25
Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith, 139, 140
p. 485 personal digital assistants (PDAs), 162, 164-66
see also PalmPilot
personal remote assistants, 31-32
Peru, 318, 321
Pfizer, 20
pharmaceutical industry, 216
Philippines, 320, 356, 416, 417, 422, 430
photography, 341-43
Pickering, Thomas R., 194-97
Pizza Hut, 3
Plow & Hearth, 145
Poland, 263-65, 411
Pol Pot, 396
POP, 61
populism, 384, 388
Portugal, 4, 321
poverty, 315, 318, 319, 376
alleviation of, 389
Powell, Colin, 212-13, 429
Powers, Pat, 125-26
Premji, Azim, 458
Prickett, Glenn, 298-99, 412
Procter & Gamble, 136
productivity, 177-78, 318
outsourcing and, 260-61
Program for International Student Assessment, 272
Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), 285-88
property rights, 321
Puerto Rico, 250, 251
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Q
Qatar, 39, 316, 400, 403
QSRweb.com, 41
Quanta, 416
Quark, 241
Qusti, Raid, 327
Qwest, 164
R
radio frequency identification microchips (RFID), 135-36, 167
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund, 304
Rajan, Raghuram, 234-35
Ramanathan, Ramesh, 388
Rao, Jaithirth “Jerry,” 11-15, 80, 109, 325, 427
Rao, Rajesh, 29, 185-91
Rashid, Richard A., 274-75
Rather, Dan, 42, 44, 93
Reagan, Ronald, 52, 55
Red Army Faction, 396
Red Brigades, 396
reform, economic, 313-23, 332-33, 335
culture and, 324-29
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 253, 254, 275
Republican Party, 206, 207, 215, 221, 255, 268, 281, 297, 452
research and development (R & D), 29-30, 355
universities and, 244-45
Reuters, 16-21
Reynolds, Glenn, 44
Reynolds, Jerry, 147
Ricardo, David, 225-27
Ride, Sally, 392
Roberts, Scott, 413
Robinson, Shane, 167
Rogers, Will, 336
Rolls-Royce, 171-72, 211-12, 354-56
Romania, 322
Romer, Paul, 176, 178, 229, 230, 289-90, 306, 339
Rose, John, 171-72, 211-12, 354-56
Rosen, Daniel H., 334-35
Rosenfeld, Jaeson, 364
Rothkopf, David, 45, 46, 451
Royal Jordanian Airlines, 345
Rubio, Luis, 336
Rumsfeld, Donald, 434
Rushdie, Salman, 404
Russia, 30, 91, 104, 138, 181-83, 193, 212, 213, 228, 274, 283, 322, 356, 385, 407, 437
Chechnya and, 434, 436
Energy consumption in, 408, 411
engineers in, 258
HP in, 209
immigrants from, 292
oil reserves of, 410, 41
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outsourcing to, 194-97, 261
work flow software in, 83
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
S
Salem, Ali, 400
Salon.com, 86, 89, 136, 215
Samsonite, 417
Samsung, 416, 417
Sandel, Michael J., 201-5
Sanmina-SCI, 299
Santana, Joe, 291-92
Sanyo, 138, 417
SAP, 34
Sarkar, Monica, 299-300
Sarnoff R & D firm, 29-30
Sathini, A., 418
Saudi Arabia, 55, 221, 400, 445, 456-58, 463
culture of, 326-29
oil in, 283, 405, 411, 412, 460, 461
terrorism in, 402, 406
Schacht, Henry, 113, 163-64
Schieffer, Bob, 42-44
Schirrmacher, Frank, 309
Schleifer, Abdallah, 396-97
p. 486 Schlesinger, David, 20-21
Schmidt, Eric, 153, 156-57
Schroeder, Gerhard, 211-12
scientists, shortage in U.S. of, 256-60
Scott, Lee, 158
SDI, 417
Seagate, 417
search engines, 150-59, 231, 233
Sears, 133, 138
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 245, 453-54, 456
Segrest Farms, 143
Seidman, Dov, 158, 360-63
Seiyu, 139-41
Sen, Amartya, 51
September 11 terrorist attacks, see 9/11
Serbia, 320
Services over Internet Protocol (SoIP), 66
Sharp, 417
Shenkar, Oded, 117
Shultz, Howard, 350
Siemens, 263
Business Services, 292
Sierra Leone, 320, 321
Sifry, Micah L., 44
Silicon Graphics, 58
Simon and Schuster, 106
Simplo, 417
Simpson, O. J., 403
Singapore, 6, 234, 272, 320, 335, 354, 355, 417, 422
Singh, Dinakar, 105, 209, 276-77, 329
Singh, Manmohan, 50, 107, 314, 384
SITE Institute, 435
60 Minutes, 42
Skype Technologies, 165
Smart Modular, 417
Smith, Adam, 199
SMTP, 61
SOAP, 75, 76
social activism, 297-303
social entrepreneurs, 363-67
Social Security, 285
Solectron, 299
Solow, Robert, 177
Somaiah, Nitu, 24
Sony Corporation, 34, 139, 199, 301, 417
Sophary, 366
Soto, Hernando de, 318, 321
SourceForge.net, 98
South Africa, 91, 209, 380
South Korea, 35, 151, 183, 249, 257, 263, 330, 332, 398, 416, 417, 419
energy consumption in, 410
immigrants from, 292
in global supply chains, 422
Southwest Airlines, 37, 173-76, 179, 199, 446
Soviet Union, 50, 193, 278, 283, 442
collapse of, 48-52, 55, 182, 314, 376, 385
former, see Russia
space program of, 254, 256, 277, 279
Spain, 4, 354, 355, 401, 405
Moorish, 328, 329
specialization, 238, 249
Spitzer, Eliot, 19, 245-46
sports, 250-51
Sputnik, 254, 256, 277, 279
Sri Lanka, 191, 430
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