Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 4, 43
Flaherty, Jim, 217
Flickr, 172
Flip, 174
Fogg, B. J., 165
Forbes, 34, 45, 85, 108, 119, 148, 193, 195, 198, 208, 266–67
Ford, Edsel, 263
Ford, Henry, 168, 262, 285
Ford, Henry, II, 262–64
Ford Foundation, 262–63
Ford Motor Company, 262, 263
Forstmann, Teddy, 58
foundations, 72, 264, 265
Fox, Vicente, 197
France, 3, 273
Frank, Barney, 260
Frank, Robert, 82
Freddie Mac, 271
Fridman, Mikhail, 107, 150, 151
Friedlander, David, 70
Friedman, Milton, 250, 277
Friess, Foster, 246–47
Fuentes, Pablo, 172
Fuld, Dick, 144, 215, 216
Gabaix, Xavier, 137
Gadhafi, Saif, 215, 227
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 133–35
Game Neverending, 172
Gandhi, Indira, 200
Gartman, Dennis, 248–49
Gates, Bill, 3, 43, 70, 74–76, 190, 195, 235–36, 246, 247, 280, 282
Gates Foundation, 74–76
Gawker, 70
geeks, 46–51, 92, 94
Gehry, Frank, 103–4
Geithner, Tim, 258
General Electric (GE), 26, 63–64, 65, 155, 157–58
General Motors (GM), 187, 255
George, Henry, xv, 38–42, 47
Germany, 3, 35, 77–78
Ghonim, Wael, 80
Gilded Age, 3, 6–14, 19–21, 28–29, 31, 32, 40, 44, 47, 78, 114, 117
robber barons in, see robber barons
Gilded Age, The (Twain and Warner), 6–7, 13
Ginsburgh, Victor, 126
Gladwell, Malcolm, 110–11
Glass-Steagall Act, 13, 264
global citizens, 59–61, 65, 67
globalization, xiv, 4, 15, 18, 19, 21, 25, 27, 31, 59–60, 64, 91, 102, 104, 157–58, 184, 221, 240, 285
events and destinations and, 58
O’Neill on, 29–30
rent-seeking and, 226–28
superstars and, 91–92, 108
Goldbart, Stephen, 176
Goldin, Claudia, 47, 82, 85, 218, 221
Goldman Sachs, 2, 18–19, 30, 52, 121–22, 147, 158, 170, 213, 252, 253, 266, 271, 272, 284, 286–87
Gompers, Samuel, 42
Google, 47, 55–56, 69, 100, 104, 158, 171, 175, 176, 236, 238
Zeitgeist conference of, 68–69
Goos, Maarten, 24
Gopalakrishnan, Kris, 201–2, 241
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 51–52, 180
Graham, Carol, 31, 51, 82
Great Compression, xii, 104
Great Depression, xiii, 9, 13, 29, 115
Great Gatsby Curve, 283
Green, Michael, 71
Greenberg, Hank, 101, 102
Greenspan, Alan, 5–6, 112, 229, 256, 257
Grehan, Ray, 103
Griffin, Ken, 42–43, 51, 247–48, 261, 282
Griffith, Keith, 50–51
Groupon, 51, 164, 171, 176
Grove, Andy, 286
Growth Map, The: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond (O’Neill), 19, 29–30
Groysberg, Boris, 129
Grubman, Jack, 48
Guerrero, Isabel, 197
Gu Kailai, 209, 210
Gupta, Rajat, 121–22
Gusinsky, Vladimir, 151
Hacker, Jacob, 18
Hall, Andrew, 121
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, Sheikh, 103
Hanson, Gordon, 23–24, 27
happiness, 31–32, 51, 82
Harris, Robert, 229
Harvard Business Review, 117, 131, 133, 267
Harvard Crimson, 268
Harvard University, 49–50, 82, 85–86, 92, 131, 147, 148, 218–19, 221, 226, 233, 234, 267–68
Haydn, Joseph, 94–95
Hayek, Friedrich, 88
Hazare, Anna, 80, 200
health care, 76
hedge funds, 2, 51, 74, 120, 121, 128, 138, 266
Heritage Foundation, 190
Hernández, Roberto, 196
Herzen, Alexander, xiv
Hewitt, Abram, 39
Hewlett, Bill, 56
Hewlett-Packard (HP), 187
Hindery, Leo, 270
Hindoo, 39–40
Hirschorn, Michael, 165
Hoffman, Reid, 141, 181–85, 187
Holbrooke, Richard, 69
Holocaust, 152–53
Hölzle, Urs, 171
Hong Kong, 35, 63
Hoogewerf, Rupert, 62, 205
Howie, Fraser, 207–8
Hsieh, Tony, 69, 173, 230, 231, 233–34
Huang Guangyu, 208
Hubbard, Glenn, 213
Huffington Post, 70
humanities, 267
Huntsman, Jon, 209, 243
Hurun Report, 204–5, 208
Hutchins, Glenn, 59
Iacocca, Lee, 262
IBM, 155, 180, 187
idea conferences, 67–70, 72
ideological vs. evidence-based worldviews, 93–94
Igan, Deniz, 222, 223
Immelt, Jeff, 63–64, 245
immigration, 61, 147
inclusive societies, 279–81, 283–85
income:
of average family in U.S., 34
of bankers, 218–21, 259
capital gains, 17, 44, 78, 79
comparing across history, 194–95
in economic recovery of 2009–2010, xiii
happiness and, 31–32
national, 1 percent’s share of, 3, 14
of superstars vs. everyone else, 100–101
of top 0.01 percent, 44
see also wages
India, xiii, 3, 10, 15–16, 19, 21–22, 28, 30, 32–33, 35, 62–63, 66, 80, 92, 146, 149, 155–59, 186, 188–89, 193–94, 197–203, 266, 267
billionaire-to-GDP ratio in, 189, 199
corruption in, 201–2
GDP in, 199
License Raj in, 198–99
rent-seeking in, 198–200, 228
Indian Institute of Technology, 188
industrial revolution, 8–16, 19–22, 29, 40–42, 50, 67, 146, 164, 178
Luddites and, 12–13, 96–97
mass production in, 99
superstars and, 95–99, 118
Infosys, 201
Ingersoll, Robert, 42
Innovator’s Dilemma, The (Christensen), 145
Inside Job, 270
insider trading, 269
Institute of International Finance, 254
intellectuals, 89–94, 110–11
Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power, The (Konrád and Szelényi), 89–90, 136
interior designers, 102
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 144, 188, 189, 217, 222, 252–53
Internet, 100, 108, 109, 126, 146, 165, 176, 182
iPhone, 28
iPod, 24–26
Ireland, 32
Israel, 3
Italy, 96
Japan, 35, 64
Jefferson, Thomas, 11–12, 42
Jennings, Stephen, 65–66, 159–62, 168–69, 173
Jensen, Michael, 133–34
JetBlue, 156
Jobs, Steve, 49, 55, 190, 246, 280
John, Elton, 109, 110
Johnson, Boris, 57, 69
Johnson, Pitch, 56, 178
Johnson, Simon, 189
Jones, Alfred Winslow, 120–22
JPMorgan, 253–55, 257–58, 260
Kadyrov, Ramzan, 110
Kagalovsky, Konstantin, 223
Kahneman, Daniel, 69
Kalyani, B. N., 241
Kaplan, Jonathan, 174, 176
Kaplan, Steven, 119–20
Kathwari, Farooq, 185–87
Katz, Lawrence, xii, 47, 82, 85, 218, 221
&nbs
p; Katzenberg, Jeffrey, 127–30
Kaufmann, Dani, 223–25
Kennedy, Caroline, 72
Kenny, Robert, x
Kensington Palace, 74
Khade, Ashok, 45
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 77, 107, 162, 163, 196, 236–37
Kim, Vladimir, 103
KKR, 122
Klebahn, Perry, 171–72
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, 183
knowledge economy, 117–19
Koch, David and Charles, 77, 247
Kohn, Donald, 256, 257
Kollontai, Alexandra, 86
Komorowski, Bronislaw, 72
Konrád, György, 89–90, 136, 266
Kovalyev, Sergei, 188
Kraemer, Kenneth, 24–26
Kravis, Henry, 69
Kravis, Marie-Josée, 69
Kristol, Irving, 264–67
Krueger, Alan, 91, 110, 283
Kryvorizhstal, 191–93
Kudrin, Alexei, 72
Kumar, Anil, 121
Kummer, Corby, 112–13
Kuznets, Simon, xi
Kuznets curve, xi–xii
Lady Gaga, 104, 108–10
Lai Changxing, 156, 162
Lall, Rajiv, 201
Landier, Augustin, 137
lawyers, 101–2, 105–7, 111, 118–19
layoffs, 186–87
LCH Investments, 142
Lehman Brothers, 122, 142, 143, 169, 215, 216
Lemieux, Thomas, 48
Lenin, V. I., 86, 93
Levchin, Max, 183
Levy, Frank, 17
Levy, Gus, 286–87
Lewis, Michael, 69, 129
Li, Stella, 32–33
Libya, 215
Lightyear Capital, 142
Lin, Alfred, 233–34
Lin, Jeremy, 140
Lincoln, Abraham, 39
Lincoln, William, 98
Linden, Greg, 24–26
Lindert, Peter, 12, 16, 43
Lindsay, Michael, 43
LinkedIn, 141, 183–85
LinkExchange, 234
Li Peng, 208
Lithuania, 149
Li Xiaolin, 208
Li Xiaopeng, 208
LLC Smart Group, 191
Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award, 181
lobbying, 222–24, 247, 260–62, 273
Loeb, Dan, 242
London, City of, 211, 214, 217, 218, 219, 227
London School of Economics, 227
London Whale, 260
Long Depression, 7, 9, 41
long tail, 100, 126–27
López-Calva, Luis-Felipe, 197
Lora, Eduardo, 31
Los Angeles Times, 76
lucky job club, 175–76
Luddites, 12–13, 96–97
Ludicorp, 172
Lu Guanqiu, 204
Lumière, Louis and Auguste, 98
Luxos, 46
luxury goods and services, 102, 104, 106
Mac 400 electrocardiograph, 157–58
Macpherson, Elle, 74
Maddison, Angus, 8–9, 16
Madonna, 107
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