AT&T, 185, 186
Atlantic, 118, 175
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 249
athletes, 108–9, 129, 130, 138
Attias, Richard, 167
Austen, Jane, 274–75
authoritarian regimes, 144–46
automobile industry, 280
Firestone in, 168
Treaty of Detroit in, 17, 18
Autor, David, 23–24, 27, 91, 148
Axelrod, David, 72
Back to Work (Clinton), x
Baker, James, 148
Balls, Edward, 214
Balsillie, Jim, 71
Bangalore, 46
banking industry, 119–22, 190, 218–19, 280
bailouts of, 218, 242, 258, 261, 280
Basel meeting and, 220
capital requirements in, 212–13, 216, 217, 253, 261
incomes in, 218–21, 259
regulation of, 212–18, 220–23, 253, 255, 259–61
Bank of America, 102, 214
Bank of Canada, 216, 252, 261
Baranowski, John, 30
Barbados, 149
Barclays, 122
Bartels, Larry, 270–71
Barton, Dominic, 60
Basel III rules, 253, 255, 261
Batali, Mario, 111–12
Batista, Eike, 54
Bauerlein, Mark, 267
Beane, Billy, 129
Bear Stearns, 258
Bedi, Kiran, 200–201
Bell, Brian, 81, 136
Beloussov, Serguei, 179–81
Benchmark Lunches, 141–44
Bendukidze, Kakha, 152, 163
Berezovsky, Boris, 150–51
Berle, Adolf, 132–34, 138
Berlin, Isaiah, 40
Bernanke, Ben, 258, 259
Bertrand, Marianne, 138–40
Bharat Light and Power, 158–59
Bharti Enterprises, 66
Bieber, Justin, 109
Bierstadt, Albert, 171
big data, 146, 165–66
Bilderberg Group, 68
Billington, Elizabeth, 94–100, 108, 109, 114
Bishop, Matthew, 71–72
Bismarck, Otto von, 141
Black, Leon, 110, 142
BlackRock, 5, 166
Blackstone, 1, 45, 60, 70, 111, 147
Blankfein, Lloyd, 121, 147, 249, 253, 254, 280
Blavatnik, Len, 62, 171
Bloomberg, Michael, 36, 69, 77, 211–14, 227, 244
Bloomberg L.P., 235
BNP Paribas, 141, 211
Boao Forum, 68
Bobergh, Otto Gustav, 113, 114
Bo Guagua, 209
Bohr, Niels, 124
Boies, David, 101–2, 105, 106
Bolsheviks, 14, 93, 145, 284
Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 188–89, 198, 201, 228
Bon Jovi, 109, 110
books, bestselling, 126
Booz Allen Hamilton, 112
Bo Xilai, 203, 209–10
Bo Yibo, 209
Brandeis, Louis, 277
Brazil, 3, 19, 35, 54, 149, 156–57, 194, 198
Brezhnev, Leonid, 89
BRICs, 3, 18–20, 21, 30
see also Brazil; China; India; Russia
Bridgestone, 168
Broad, Eli, 71, 72
Brown, Gordon, 214
Brown, Joshua, 84
Brown University, 284
Buffett, Warren, 3, 75, 79, 129–30, 143, 175, 282
Buiter, Willem, 256–57, 270, 271
Bundy, McGeorge, 263
Bunshaft, Gordon, 103–4
Burda, Hubert, 68
Bush, George H. W., 148
Bush, George W., 214, 260–61
Business Insider, 238
Busson, Arpad, 74
Butterfield, Stewart, 172
BYD, 32–33
Byers, Brook, 183
Cable, Vince, 139
Calderón, Felipe, 255
Cameron, David, 57
Canada, 216–17, 253
Candy and Candy, 102–3
capital:
labor vs., 117
talent vs., 116–17, 122, 129–30
capital gains, 17, 44, 78, 79
Cardin, Pierre, 116
Carlyle Group, 121, 148
Carnegie, Andrew, ix, 9–11, 13, 26, 55, 71, 195, 235, 237
Carney, Mark, 252–56, 258–61
Carr, David, 140
Carter, Amy, 265–66
Casabolseros, Los, 51
Caterpillar, 26
CEOs, 134–40, 190, 219, 261
Cerisola, Pedro, 197
Chanos, James, 142, 172
Chaplin, Charlie, 98–100, 108, 114
charity, 70–76, 246, 264
Chasing Stars (Groysberg), 129
chefs, 111–13, 138
Chicago Tribune, 247
Chile, 149
China, xiii, 3, 14–17, 19–22, 27, 28, 30, 35, 62–63, 66, 68, 92, 146, 149, 156, 162, 186, 193, 198, 203–10, 217, 255–56, 260, 266, 267, 285
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in, 203
Communist Party in, 46
income vs. happiness in, 31–32
iPhone and, 28
iPod and, 24–26
Ming Dynasty in, 96
National People’s Congress in, 203–4, 207, 209
princelings in, 208, 209
rent-seeking in, 204–10
strikes and, 33
“China Syndrome, The” (Autor, Dorn, and Hanson), 23–24, 27
Chopra, Tejpreet Singh, 157–59
Christensen, Clayton, 145, 147, 158
Chubais, Anatoly, 188
Cisco, 174
Citadel, 51
Citigroup, 63, 106, 121, 169–70, 257
consumer hourglass theory of, 6
plutonomy memo of, 5, 147, 167
revolutions and, 147
Clearwell, 106
Clinton, Bill, x, 3, 68, 71, 72, 270
Clinton, Chelsea, 72, 266
Clinton, Hillary, 265
Clinton Global Initiative, 68
clothing industry, 113–16
cognitive state capture, 256–57, 272–73
Cohen, Rachel, 76
collective good, 55–56
Commercial Advertiser, 7
Commonwealth Club, 176–78
communications technology, 99–100
communism, 14, 17–18, 21, 77, 136, 266, 284
Communist Party, 46, 89
computers, 146, 166–67
Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 43–44
Cook, Charlie, 111
Cook Political Report, 111
cooks, 111–13, 138
Cooper, Peter, 39
Cooper, Thomas, 11
Cooperman, Leon, 45, 245–46
Corak, Miles, 283
corruption, 224
in India, 201–2
legal, 224–27
Council on Foreign Relations, 185, 227
Crassus, Marcus, 195
creative capitalism, 75
Credit Suisse, 34–35, 122
Global Wealth Report of, 58–59
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), 159–61
crony capitalism, 82–84, 190
Dalits, 45
Daschle, Tom, 270
data, big, 146, 165–66
Davies, Howard, 214–15
Davos, 61, 62, 68, 72, 75, 227
Deaton, Angus, 31, 82
Dedrick, Jason, 24–26
Delivering Happiness (Hsieh), 230
Deloitte, 173
democracy, 77
Deneuve, Catherine, 116
Deng Xiaoping, 156
dentists, 101, 107
Depression, Great, xiii, 9, 13, 29, 115
Depression, Long, 7, 9, 41
deregulation, 220–23, 225, 227
derivatives business, 212, 221
Detroit, Mich., 184, 280
Treaty of, 17, 18
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 108
DiFuria, Joan, 176
Digital Sky Technologies (DST), 66, 164
Dimon, Jamie, 244–45, 253–55, 257–60
Djilas, Milovan, 89–90, 266
DLA Piper, 105, 106
DLD (Digital-Life-Design), 68
Doll, Bob, 5
dopamine, 147
Doriot, Georges, 120–22
Dorn, David, 23–24, 27
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 6
Dreyfuss, Richard, 127
Druckenmiller, Stan, 143
Drucker, Peter, 88, 117–18
Drummond, Don, 216–17
Dubai, 63
Duggan, James, 249
Easterlin, Richard, 31
eBay, 171, 183
École Polytechnique, 273
economic crisis of 2008, see financial crisis of 2008
Economist, 209
Edison, Thomas, 38
education, 45, 47, 61, 91, 92
college, 47–50, 52, 61–62, 283
elite, 48–49, 52, 61–62, 83, 283
philanthro-capitalists and, 75, 76
race between technology and, 47–48
Einstein, Albert, 124–25, 126
electrocardiographs, 157–58
El-Erian, Mohamed, 65, 251–52
Emanuel, Rahm, 242, 258
employment:
insecurity in, 53
unemployment, 186–87, 238, 240, 265
wages in, see wages
Engels, Friedrich, 39
England, 63, 81, 139, 214–15, 227
industrial revolution in, 95
Jefferson on, 11–12
recession in, 57
summer social season in, 57, 67
entertainment, 100, 123, 130
movies, 98, 100, 109, 127–30
music, 109–10, 126–27, 170–71
entitlement, sense of, 239
entrepreneurs, 167
Ethan Allen, 185, 186
Eugénie, Empress, 114
evidence-based vs. ideological worldviews, 93–94
Evon, Michael, 232, 233, 234
extractive societies, 279–81, 283
Facebook, 47, 104, 146, 147, 163–66, 171, 175
Fake, Caterina, 172
fame, 123, 128
Fannie Mae, 271
fashion designers, 113–16
Faust, Drew, 49–50, 267
Fear Index, The (Harris), 229
Ferguson, Niall, 268
finance industry, 119–22, 129–30
financial crisis of 2008, 15, 28, 37, 63, 139, 141, 142, 144, 146, 152–54, 169–70, 178, 189, 214, 217, 220, 223, 254, 261, 269
blame for, 242
Bloomberg/Schumer/McKinsey report and, 212–14
regulation and, 212–14, 218, 253
financial deregulation, 220–23, 225, 227
Financial Services Forum, 253
Financial Stability Board (FSB), 253
Financial Times, 267
Fink, Larry, 166–67
Finland, 3
Firestone, 168–69
Firestone, Harvey, 168
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