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  10. See Antoine Van Agtmael and Fred Bakker, The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation (New York: Hachette, 2016); James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (New York: Pantheon Books, 2018).

  11. See Katz and Nowak, New Localism.

  12. See Katz and Nowak, New Localism.

  13. See Fallows and Fallows, Our Towns.

  14. See Benjamin A. Austin, Edward L. Glaeser, and Lawrence H. Summers, “Jobs for the Heartland: Place-Based Policies in 21st Century America,” NBER Working Paper No. 24548, April 2018; Gilles Duranton and Anthony J. Venables, “Place-Based Policies for Development,” NBER Working Paper No. 24562, April 2018.

  15. See Austin, Glaeser, and Summers, “Jobs for the Heartland.”

  16. Ibid.

  17. See, for example, Amy Goldstein, Janesville: An American Story (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017).

  CHAPTER 12: RESPONSIBLE SOVEREIGNTY

  1. Alex Hern, “Fitness Tracking App Strava Gives Away Location of Secret US Army Bases,” The Guardian, January 28, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases.

  2. Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales, “The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the Twentieth Century,” Journal of Financial Economics 69 (2003): 5–50, available at http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/luigi.zingales/papers/research/jfereversal.pdf.

  3. Clyde Haberman, “Japanese Are Special Types, They Explain,” The New York Times, March 3, 1988, accessible at https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/06/weekinreview/the-world-japanese-are-special-types-they-explain.html.

  4. Simon Dawson, “Chlorine-washed Chicken Q&A: Food Safety Expert Explains Why US Poultry Is Banned in the EU,” The Conversation, August 2, 2017, http://theconversation.com/chlorine-washed-chicken-qanda-food-safety-expert-explains-why-us-poultry-is-banned-in-the-eu-81921.

  5. Jon Swaine, “Bent Banana and Curved Cucumber Rules Dropped,” The Telegraph, July 24, 2008, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2453204/Bent-banana-and-curved-cucumber-rules-dropped-by-EU.html.

  6. Martin Wolf, “Globalization and Global Economic Governance,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy 20, no. 1, 2004.

  7. See, for example, Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008).

  8. Josh Lerner, “The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues,” American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 99: 2, 343–48, 2009.

  9. See Dani Rodrik, Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018).

  10. See Douglas A. Irwin, “The False Promise of Protectionism: Why Trump’s Trade Policy Could Backfire,” Foreign Affairs 96 (May/June 2017): 45–56.

  11. See Raghuram Rajan and Prachi Mishra, “Rules of the Monetary Game,” University of Chicago Working Paper, April 2018, http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/raghuram.rajan/research/papers/Rules-of-game-mar-21-2016-3.pdf; and John B. Taylor, “Ideas and Institutions in Monetary Policy Making” (presentation), the Karl Brunner Distinguished Lecture, Swiss National Bank, Zurich, September 21, 2017.

  12. See Arvind Subramanian, Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance (Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011).

  CHAPTER 13: REFORMING MARKETS

  1. This follows from work with Luigi Zingales.

  2. Patricia Dermansky, “Should Australia Replace Section 181 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) With Wording Similar to Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 (UK)?,” 4, available at https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/1709832/60-Should_Austalia_replace_s181_of_the_Corporations_Act3.pdf.

  3. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Harper, 1950), 84, 85.

  4. Luigi Zingales, A Capitalism for the People (New York: Basic Books, 2010), and Luigi Zingales, “Towards a Political Theory of the Firm,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 31, no. 3 (Summer 2017): 113–30, https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.31.3.113.

  5. Willard F. Mueller, “The Celler-Kefauver Act: The First 27 Years (A Study Prepared for the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 95th Congress, 2nd Session),” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978), 17.

  6. One of the concerns of the supporters of the Celler-Kefauver Act was that “increasing centralization of the private sector adversely affected small local communities whose business enterprises were controlled by large corporations headquartered in faraway financial centers.”

  7. Allen N. Berger, Nathan H. Miller, Mitchell A. Petersen, Raghuram G. Rajan, and Jeremy C. Stein, “Does Function Follow Organizational Form? Evidence From the Lending Practices of Large and Small Banks,” Journal of Financial Economics 76, no. 2 (2005): 237–69.

  8. See Jeremy C. Stein, “Information Production and Capital Allocation: Decentralized vs. Hierarchical Firms,” Journal of Finance 57, no. 5 (2002): 1891–1921.

  9. Michele Boldrin and David Levine, “The Case Against Patents,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper Series 2012–035A, https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf; Michele Boldrin and David Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

  10. Steve Jobs et al., Portable display device, USD670286S1, priority date June 01, 2010, and granted June 11, 2012.

  11. “Can Genes Be Patented?,” Genetics Home Reference, U.S. National Library of Medicine (website), accessed August 07, 2018, https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/genepatents.

  12. “Seven Years a ‘Cobbler,’” Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (website), accessed August 07, 2018, https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/the-history-of-the-ipi/einstein/einstein-at-the-patent-office.html.

  13. See, for instance, Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future? (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013), and Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018).

  14. See, for example, Luigi Zingales and Guy Rolnick, “A Way to Own Your Social-Media Data,” The New York Times, June 30, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/opinion/social-data-google-facebook-europe.html.

  15. See Posner and Weyl, Radical Markets, or Lanier, Who Owns the Future?, for elaborations of arguments on data ownership.

  16. Steve Eder, “When Picking Apples on a Farm With 5,000 Rules, Watch Out for the Ladders,” The New York Times, December 27, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/business/picking-apples-on-a-farm-with-5000-rules-watch-out-for-the-ladders.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=%E2%80%A6.

  17. Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).

  18. See Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (New York: Basic Books, 1983).

  19. “Money in Film: Businessmen Are Always the Villains,” The Economist, October 16, 2015, https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/10/money-film.

  EPILOGUE

  1. John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Prospects for our Grandchildren” in Essays in Persuasion, (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1963): 358–73.

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  INDEX

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take you to the beginning of that print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.

  Acemoglu, Daron, 94, 185

  Adele, 193

  affirmative action, 300–302

  Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), 144, 214, 239–41

  African America
ns, 137, 157–58, 229–31

  Civil Rights movement and, 138, 157, 229, 230, 235

  agglomeration economies, 220–21

  aging populations, 260, 284, 286, 292–93, 324, 342–43, 348, 396

  agriculture, 78, 121, 148–49, 152, 184, 275

  AIDS, 183, 184

  airlines, 161, 165, 166, 197–98

  Alesina, Alberto, 137

  Amazon, 178, 384

  Ambedkar, B. R., 287

  American Medical Association, 137, 207

  Amish, 8

  amoral familism, 14

  Antitrust Paradox, The (Bork), 202

  antitrust regulators, 202

  apathy, 113–15, 347

  Apple, 178, 182–83, 383

  Arab Spring, 330

  aristocracy, 54–56, 72, 78, 87

  Aristotle, 21, 39, 40, 48

  Arthashastra, 31

  Augustine, St., 39

  authoritarianism, xvii, xviii, 97, 106, 108–9, 112, 139, 160, 244, 253, 257, 274

  legitimacy-seeking, 253

  automobiles, 152, 179–80, 261

  automation, xii, xviii, 3, 18, 84, 179, 180, 143–44, 175, 178, 185–87, 284, 314, 324

  Autor, David, 185

  Bacon, Francis, 41

  Bakunin, Mikhail, 91

  Banfield, Edward, 12–14, 227

  Bank of England, 68, 69

  banks, 15–16, 72, 104, 178–79, 209, 219, 381, 385, 386

  Global Financial Crisis and, 237–39, 358

  inflation and, 366

  regulation of, 358–60

  Baosteel Group, 253

  Barry, Ellen, 19–20

  Basel Accords, 358, 360

  Basix, 336, 337

  “beggar thy neighbor” policies, 364

  “beggar thyself” policies, 364

  Bell, Daniel, 257

  Beveridge, William, 155–56

  Beveridge Report, 155–56, 318, 319, 321

  Bible, 119

  usury and, 31–32, 34, 48

  Billington, Elizabeth, 193

  Bismarck, Otto von, 112, 132

  Black Death, 40, 41–42

  BoBos (bourgeois bohemians), 218

  Bohannan, Laura, 7–8

  Boldrin, Michele, 382–83

  Boleyn, Anne, 54

  Book of Rates, 63

  borders, 290, 351–54, 371

  Bork, Robert, 202

  Bowling Alone (Putnam), 334

  Bretton Woods system, 160, 169

  Brexit, 242

  Britain, see England; United Kingdom

  Brooks, David, 218, 227

  Bryan, William Jennings, 100

  bubonic plague (Black Death), 40, 41–42

  Burnham, Daniel, xxviii

  Bush, George W., 158

  Calvin, John, 47–49, 82

  Calvinism, 47–49, 55, 82, 86, 218

  Canada, 294, 298, 342, 368

  cannons, 42–44, 51

  capitalism, 145, 147

  Calvinism and, 47–48

  in China, 252–55

  crony, 99, 106, 108–9, 257–58

  Marxist view of, 88–90

  Weber’s view of, 47

  Capitalism for the People, A (Zingales), 200

  caregivers, 319–20

  Carlyle, Thomas, 83

  cars, 152, 179–80, 261

  Carter, Jimmy, 163, 165, 235

  Catholic Church, 29, 42, 49–50, 57, 59, 66–67, 72

  Councils of, 34

  monasteries of, 54, 57, 72

  Papal Revolution in, 38, 40

  Reformation and, 40–41, 47, 49

  reform in attitudes toward business and interest, 47–49

  state and, 45–46

  usury and, 34–42, 44–46, 49

  wealth of, 44–45

  Celler-Kefauver Act, 380

  CEOs, 193–94, 198–99, 209

  Chandragupta Maurya, 31

  Charles I, King, 66

  Chernow, Ron, 85

  Chetty, Raj, xvi

  Chicago, Ill., xxii, xxiii, 308, 312, 340–41

  Pilsen community in, xxii–xxvi, 12, 298, 344, 381

  Chicago Tribune, xxiii

  chickens, 354–55, 357

  children, 222–31

  meritocracy and, 224–25, 228

  China, xxviii, 42, 97, 144, 145, 147, 185, 245, 246, 291, 342, 352

  aging population in, 260, 292

  anti-corruption campaign in, 261, 265

  capitalism in, 252–55

  change in, 258–64

  Communist Party in, 144, 247–67

  construction sector in, 275

  crony competition in, 257–58

  Deng in, 249–52, 265, 278

  Global Financial Crisis and, 258, 259

  growth of, 258, 368–69

  households in, 255–56, 259–60, 263–64

  imports from, 185

  income inequality in, 260

  India compared with, 247–48, 267, 269, 270, 275–76

  infrastructure in, 259

  internet and, 266, 350

  liberalization in, 248–67, 276

  Maoism in, 247, 248–50

  medieval, 20–21

  meritocracy in, 257, 265

  one-child policy in, 260

  in Opium Wars, 349–50

  path not taken in, 249–52

  populist nationalism in, 276–79

  social credit system proposed in, 266

  state, markets, and democracy in, 264–67

  technology and, 261–62, 278

  Tiananmen Square protests in, 250–51

  United States and, 278

  Xiushui Market in Beijing, 255

  Church, see Catholic Church

  citizenship, 290, 295–99, 302

  global, 369

  civic nationalism, 297–99, 302

  Civil Rights movement, 138, 157, 229, 230, 235

  Clay, Lucius, 150

  climate change, xii, 245, 284, 365, 396–97

  Clinton, Hillary, 235

  Coleman, James, 225

  colleges and universities, 190–91, 220–21, 308–9, 340

  credentials and, 233–34, 317

  communications technology:

  community and, 330–35

  see also Information and Communications Technology (ICT) revolution; internet

  communism, xvii, 91, 97, 145–47

  in China, 144, 247–67

  in France, 168

  community(ies), xiii, xxvii, 1–22, 25, 243, 283, 285–87, 297, 303–4, 325, 392, 393, 394

  alternatives and, 15–17

  assets of, 339–41

  in the balance, 107–40

  benefits of, 327–29

  common themes in revival of, 338

  communications technology and, 330–35

  competition between, 306–7, 329

  conflict resolution in, 9–10

  crime and drug abuse in, 343–44

  dealing with failure in, 347–48

  definition of, xiv

  downsides of, 329

  dysfunctional, xiii, xix, 12–15, 173, 227, 325, 378

  economic segregation in, 307–9

  economic value of, 11

  Elberfeld system in, 129–31, 320

  engagement in, 344–45

  feudal, see feudalism, feudal communities

  financing revival in, 346–47

  Galena, 337–38, 339, 344

  ICT revolution and, xviii–xx, 176, 184–88

  importance of, xiv–xviii

  and importance of location, 21
9–21

  and incentive to change, 18–19

  Indore, 335–37, 339, 344

  infrastructure and, 309–11

  insular, costs of, 19–21

  leadership in, 339, 344–45

  local government, xiv, xv, xvi, 11–12, 286, 305, 311–13

  localizing powers and public services in, 306–13

  and loss of faith in markets, 115–19

  market adjustments and, 388–91

  outside choice and, 15, 18, 19

  people as assets in, 342–43

  physically proximate, 1–4, 327–30, 335–45, 395

  Pilsen, xxii–xxvi, 12, 298, 344, 381

  as political training ground, xvii

  positive roles of, 4–10

  regulations and, 285, 304, 306–7, 341, 357

  reinvigorating, xx–xxi, 327–48, 352, 395

  relief efforts from, 131–33

  safety net and, 127–38, 318–25

  schools and, 119–25, 225–28, 232–34, 313–18

  separation of markets and state from, xiv–xv

  social relationships in, 7–8

  sorting and, see residential sorting

  state and, 303–25, 345–46

  tax incentives and, 345

  technology and, 119, 335, 344–45

  trade and, xviii–xx, 335, 352

  training and socializing of young in, 5–7

  transactions in, 3, 8–9, 10–11

  value of, 10–12

  values in, and tolerance for markets, 390–92

  varieties of, 2, 329–35

  village, 4

  virtual, 327, 329, 330

  compass, 41–42, 43

  competition, xxii, 52, 64, 71, 84–87, 89, 91, 105, 106, 108–10, 139, 145, 176, 207–8, 283, 374, 392, 393

  between communities, 306–7, 329

  curbs on, 138

  enhancing, 379–86

  European Union and, 208–9

  monopolies and, see monopolies

  non-compete agreements, 205, 206, 387

  patent protection and, 383

  preservation of, in U.S., 98–105

  property rights and, 286

  regulation and, 165, 387–88

  scaring away, 203–6

  computers, 117, 175, 185, 186, 314

  see also Information and Communications Technology revolution; internet

  Confessions (Augustine), 39

 

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