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Grand Pursuit

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  “Cost of living” adjustment, 303

  Cotton, Henry, 204–205

  Credit, 168, 190, 206, 236, 330

  Great Depression and, 316, 322, 331

  of 1920s, 300

  Panic of 1907, 184–85

  post–World War I, 236, 262, 263, 281, 286, 300

  post–World War II, 393

  Schumpeter on, 190, 191, 192

  Crimean War, 95

  Crystal Palace, 34, 40, 43

  Cuninghame, Thomas, 213, 224, 226

  Currency. See Money; specific currencies

  Current Tax Payment Act (1943), 371

  Currie, Lauchlin, 318, 363, 364, 397–98, 409, 411

  D

  Dandison, Basil, 421

  Dante, Inferno, 269

  Darwin, Charles, 4, 5, 41, 97, 98, 106, 148, 150, 176, 177, 299

  On the Origin of Species, 57, 134

  Darwin, Leonard, 299

  Davenport, John, 403

  Dawes Plan, 290

  D-Day, 383, 405

  Debt, 162, 168, 330

  Fisher on, 320–22, 330

  Great Depression and, 320–22

  post–World War I, 205

  World War I, 210, 219–22, 228, 230, 244, 245–53, 259, 281, 320, 322, 356

  World War II, 387, 393

  Deficit spending, 326, 328, 355

  British, 355

  Great Depression and, 326–30

  Keynes on, 326–30

  World War II and, 355, 384

  Deflation, 161, 279, 310, 315, 321, 324

  Fisher on, 161–63, 166–70, 303, 320, 325

  Keynes on, 284–85, 310, 315

  Degas, Edgar, 199

  Delano, Frederic A., 409

  Delhi School of Economics, 446, 454

  Democracy, 57–58, 186, 200, 206, 262, 284, 373, 395, 422, 444, 460

  Democratic Students Association, 275

  Denison, Edward, 51

  Depressions, 299, 308, 310, 330, 388, 423

  early 1880s British, 86–88

  of 1890s, 86, 153–59

  Great Depression, see Great Depression

  of 1907, 137, 183–85

  post–World War I, 208–213, 264–65, 296, 300–301

  Development, economic, 188–93, 272–73

  Dewey, Thomas E., 410

  Dhaka, 448–49, 450

  Dickens, Charles, 3–10, 24, 31, 50, 59, 62, 67, 73, 74, 80, 81–82, 83, 89, 169, 461

  Bleak House, 22

  A Christmas Carol, 7–10, 37

  Dombey & Son, 19

  Great Expectations, 53

  Hard Times, 82

  Household Words, 10

  Nicholas Nickleby, 13

  Oliver Twist, 6–7, 29

  Diminishing returns, law of, 33

  Director, Aaron, 366, 403, 415

  Dobb, Maurice, 351

  Dockworkers, 115–16, 119

  Dollar, 162, 218, 282, 301

  Domestic servants, 29

  Dorfman, Joseph, 335

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 43

  Dulles, John Foster, 237

  Dunkirk, 359, 360, 367

  Duranty, Walter, 338, 339

  E

  East Germany, 433

  Eccles, Marriner, 323, 363

  Econometric Society, 437

  Economica, 376

  Economic Advisory Board, 307, 316, 332

  Economic Journal, 153, 203, 344, 350, 441

  Economics, xiii–xv, 4, 10

  American Progressive Era, 145–70

  Austrian, 155, 175–77, 185–94, 263–80

  employment and prices connection, 299–302, 320, 321

  Engels on, 14–18, 22–28, 273

  evolution, 177–78, 186–93, 272–73

  Fisher on, 150–63, 165–70, 285, 295–305, 311–15, 317–26, 330

  Friedman on, 365–71

  future of, 461–63

  German, 149, 175–77, 186

  Great Depression, 306–337, 347, 351, 366, 392, 393

  growth, 436–42

  Hayek on, 278–80, 332–34, 374–79, 386, 399–405

  historical school, 175, 176

  Indian, 454–60

  Keynesian, 240–42, 245–61, 282–95, 306–311, 315–17, 326–37, 354–64, 365, 371, 384–89, 393–94, 398, 402, 409–411, 416, 419–20, 423, 438

  macroeconomics, 418, 422, 423

  markets as calculators, 277–78

  Marshall on, 59, 62–65, 71–90, 152, 169, 177–78, 190, 272, 423

  Marx on, 15–18, 22–28, 34–47, 64, 78, 82, 85, 169, 190, 272, 273

  mathematical, 150–53

  Mill on, 32–34, 38, 60–62

  nineteenth-century British, 14–18, 23–47, 52–90, 100–138, 155

  of 1920s, 262–82, 281–308, 392

  of 1950s–60s, 421–24, 426–45

  post–World War I, 235–61, 413

  post–World War II, 383–89, 402–408, 409–424, 430, 437–45

  Robinson on, 347–53, 431–45

  Samuelson on, 419–24

  Schumpeter on, 175–78, 185–94, 201, 220, 270–74, 334–37, 372–74, 386

  Sen on, 454–60

  twentieth-century American, 278–79, 295–308, 311–26, 362–71, 374, 409–424

  twentieth-century British, 171, 175, 176, 240–42, 282–95, 306–311, 317, 331–33, 343–53, 354–64, 385

  war reparations debate, 244–60

  World War I and, 197–206, 244–60, 285–86, 387

  World War II and, 354–71, 374–79, 383–89, 397

  See also specific economists, schools, theories, and principles

  Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, 153, 155

  Education, 62, 170

  coeducation, 68, 79

  compulsory, 108, 129, 137, 166

  moral, 77–78

  reform, 62–63, 67, 166

  university, 147

  women’s, 62–63, 66–69, 79

  See also specific schools

  Egypt, 171, 179–86, 189, 220, 358, 463

  British rule, 180–82, 184

  economy, 181–85, 192

  industry, 180–82, 186

  Panic of 1907, 183–85

  Einstein, Albert, 187, 215, 276, 282, 291

  Eisenhower, Dwight, 406, 424

  Eisenmenger, Anna, 217–18, 264, 266

  Electrification, 141, 173–74, 213, 273, 294, 296

  Eliot, George, 41, 62, 79, 93, 99

  Middlemarch, 70, 91, 95

  The Mill on the Floss, 66

  Eliot, T. S., 343

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 74, 154

  “Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing,” 48

  Employment, 284, 417, 423

  Fisher on prices and, 299–302, 320, 321

  post–World War II, 392

  World War II and, 360, 362–63, 384, 392

  See also Industry; Labor; Unemployment

  Engel-Janosi, Friedrich, 279

  Engels, Friedrich, 11–14, 19, 430, 439

  The Communist Manifesto, 23–28, 36, 37, 90

  The Condition of the Working Class in England, 17–18, 37

  on economics, 14–18, 22–28, 273

  family business of, 12, 13, 35, 46

  Marx and, 11–12, 16–18, 22–28, 34–37, 41, 43, 45–47

  “Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy,” 14, 38

  Enigma machine, 362

  Entrepreneurship, 190–92, 220, 257, 374

  Erhard, Ludwig, 407

  Eucken, Walter, 404

  Eugenics, 178, 203, 298–99

  Evolutionary theory, 4, 23, 57, 97–98, 106, 176, 177

  Exchange rates, 162, 285, 286

  fixed, 282

  floating, 282

  Great Depression and, 323

  Exports, 236, 264, 285, 286, 293, 395

  F

  Fabianism, 119, 120–29, 130, 178, 190, 214, 275, 298, 332, 338

  Factories, 40, 41, 58, 108, 173, 321, 443

  American, 74, 76, 141, 143, 145, 155, 296, 411–12


  Marshall on, 80–83

  nineteenth-century British, 12–14, 17–28, 41, 52

  See also Industry; Labor

  Factory Acts (1844), 10

  Falk, Oswald “Foxy,” 281, 282

  Famine, 6, 16, 205, 447, 454–55

  China, 443–44, 455

  cotton, 140, 180

  1890s American, 155–56

  Hungry Forties, 3–10, 13–18, 26–28, 33, 293

  India, 443, 447–48, 450, 455, 459

  post–World War I, 208–213, 219, 225, 235, 246–50, 253, 257, 264–65

  potato, 27, 32

  Ukraine, 339, 340, 443

  See also Food; Hunger

  Fascism, 262, 295, 331, 392, 431

  Fawcett, Henry, 50, 60

  Manual of Political Economy, 116

  Fawcett, Millicent, 61, 63

  FBI, 373

  Federal Reserve, 300, 302, 304, 367–68, 411, 413, 415, 423

  Great Depression and, 307, 309, 317, 320, 322, 326, 331

  Feinstein, Charles, 41

  Ferguson, Niall, 264

  Fettig, David, 320

  Fisher, George, 145–47, 163

  Fisher, Irving, 145–70, 192, 194, 197, 203–205, 262, 263, 278, 281, 283, 284, 286, 292, 295–305, 392, 393, 415, 417, 425, 439, 463

  Appreciation and Interest, 162

  Booms and Depressions, 330

  cars of, 295, 297

  daughter’s illness and, 204–205

  death of, 423

  on debt, 320–22

  on economics, 150–63, 165–70, 285, 295–305, 311–15, 317–26, 330

  eugenics and, 298–99

  financial ruin of, 314–15, 326, 331–32

  on gold standard, 159–63, 169, 300, 317–18, 326

  grand tour, 154–55

  Great Depression and, 311–15, 317–26, 327, 330

  How to Live, 203

  illness of, 163–65, 167

  on inflation, 161, 166–70, 299–304

  as inventor, 302–303

  “Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices,” 153, 160, 161

  The Nature of Capital and Income, 165–66

  in the 1920s, 295–305

  on 1929 stock market crash, 311–15

  on prices and employment, 299–302, 320, 321

  Principles of Economics, 299

  The Purchasing Power of Money, 321

  The Rate of Interest, 167, 305

  Roosevelt and, 325–26

  Stabilizing the Dollar, 310

  The Stock Market Crash—and After, 313

  on stocks, 304–305, 311–15

  at Yale, 145, 147–53, 158

  Fisher, Margaret Hazard, 154, 155, 163, 164, 318

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 414

  The Great Gatsby, 414

  This Side of Paradise, 364

  Florida, 413, 414

  Flour, 20, 209

  Food, xii, 170, 189

  China, 443–44

  Hungry Forties, 3–10, 13–18, 26–28, 33, 293

  India, 447–48, 455

  Panic of 1866, 48–52

  post–World War I shortages, 208–213, 219, 225, 235, 246–50, 253, 257, 264–65

  prices, 3, 5–6, 33, 49, 59, 156, 257, 264–65, 339, 413, 447

  supply, 5–6

  taxes, 9, 33

  World War II rationing, 385

  See also Famine; Hunger; specific foods

  Foote, Michael, 444

  Forecasting, economic, 301–302, 303–304, 305, 319–20, 420

  France, xii, 8, 14, 25, 27, 28, 161, 295

  of 1930s, 316

  Paris Peace Conference, 244–60

  post–World War I, 219, 230, 236–38, 244, 245–60, 290, 413

  Republic, 28

  Vichy, 361

  World War I, 198–200, 205

  World War II, 355, 357, 359, 361, 383

  Franco, Francisco, 359, 396

  Franco-German Annals, 15, 16

  Frankfurter, Felix, 237, 255, 316

  Franz Joseph, Emperor, 174, 200

  Freeman, Ralph, 420

  Free-silver movement, 162

  Free trade, 123, 150, 191, 192, 206, 258, 262, 330, 393, 401, 441

  Fremantle, William Henry, 51

  French Revolution, 14, 28

  Freud, Sigmund, 5, 173, 207, 209, 211, 218, 264, 265

  Frick, Henry Clay, 143

  Friedman, Milton, 334, 364–71, 403, 415, 425, 436, 445

  on economics, 365–71

  A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960, 314

  permanent income hypothesis, 366

  “Taxing to Prevent Inflation,” 367

  tax policy, 367–71

  World War II and, 367–71

  Friedman, Rose, 367

  Fry, Roger, 199, 200, 343

  Furth, Herbert, 275, 276, 278

  G

  Gaddis, John Lewis, 389, 394, 430

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 363, 364, 368

  The Affluent Society, xi

  Galton, Sir Francis, 97, 190, 299

  Gandhi, Indira, 453

  Gandhi, Mohandas K., 449, 460

  Gardner, Richard, 434

  Garrett, Elizabeth, 63

  Gaskell, Elizabeth, North and South, 52

  Geist-Kreis, 276, 279, 375, 403

  General Maximum Price Regulation, 369

  General Strike of 1926, Britain, 289–90

  Genetics, 298–99

  George, Henry, 86–89

  Progress & Poverty, 86

  Germany, xiii, 13, 14, 24, 25, 28, 149, 161, 173, 431

  Anschluss talks with Austria, 216, 219, 229–31

  Blitzkrieg, 357

  economics, 149, 175–79, 186

  government, 213–16

  Great Depression, 335

  industry, 214, 335

  labor, 214

  Marshall Plan, 407

  Nazi, 299, 331, 335, 336, 360, 375, 387, 395, 396, 400

  of 1920s, 290–91

  of 1930s, 331, 332, 335–36, 340

  postwar food supplies, 246–50

  post–World War I, 208, 210, 213–16, 222–23, 229–31, 236, 244–61

  post–World War II, 405–408, 462

  social welfare, 133, 137

  society, 17, 214, 291

  U-boats, 358, 362

  war reparations, 231, 244–61, 290, 406–407

  Wirtschaftswunder, 407

  World War I, 197–200

  World War II, 354–71, 375, 383, 394–96, 400, 403, 424, 440

  Gibbs, J. Willard, 147, 148, 152, 416, 418

  GI Bill, 420

  Giffen, Robert, xiii, 40, 50

  Gilbert and Sullivan, 66

  Gladstone, William, 11, 134, 136, 140, 141

  Globalization, 24, 165, 189, 205, 258, 393, 401, 430, 438–39, 459–60

  Gold standard, 157, 159–63, 184–85, 258, 267, 285, 335, 422

  abandoned by Roosevelt, 325–26

  Fisher on, 159–63, 169, 300, 317–18, 326

  Great Depression and, 307, 316, 317–18, 325–26, 331

  post–World War I, 258, 267, 282, 285–86

  Government, 129–31, 151, 294, 299, 300, 422–23, 432

  Austrian, 209–211, 213–34

  British, 3, 9, 57–58, 91, 95, 101–102, 122, 129–38, 285–95, 307, 310–11, 316–17, 338, 339, 342, 355–56, 385, 401, 420, 433–35

  German, 213–16

  Great Depression and, 307, 315–16, 330, 331

  India, 447–48, 449, 459–60

  modern welfare state, 131–38, 169

  regulation, 165–70, 192, 330, 393–94, 402

  Grant, Duncan, 199, 200, 241, 253, 282, 286, 316, 341

  Great Britain, xi–xv, 161, 295

  banking, 44–47, 281–82, 286, 307

  Black Friday, 44–47, 49

  Communism, 429–31, 433–36

  Conservatives, 101–102, 108, 129, 286, 289, 317, 433

  decolonization, 438

  depression of
early 1880s, 86–88

  of 1840s–50s, 3–10, 12–42, 293

  of 1860s–70s, 40–47, 48–72

  of 1880s–90s, 86–90, 91–138, 140–41, 154, 161–62

  Great Exhibition, 34–36, 40, 43, 67

  imperialism, 129, 180–82, 184, 220, 437

  India ruled by, 447, 448, 449–50

  Industrial Revolution, 12–14, 17–23, 24–28, 41, 44, 52, 61, 63, 64, 81–82

  Labour Party, 131, 307, 310–11, 316–17, 323, 339, 385, 420, 432–35

  Lend-Lease, 359–62

  Liberals, 14, 101–102, 108, 129–31, 134–37, 197, 239, 289–95, 307, 317

  Marshall Plan, 407, 434

  migration to city, 26

  national debt, 355

  nineteenth-century economics, 14–18, 23–47, 52–90, 100–138, 155

  of 1920s, 281–305, 342

  1926 coal strike, 289–90, 344

  1929 stock market crash, 306–311

  of 1930s, 306–311, 316–17, 331–33, 355–56, 393

  Panic of 1866, 48–52

  Panic of 1907, 137, 183–85

  Paris Peace Conference, 244–60

  post–World War I, 219, 236–38, 244, 245–61, 282–95, 413

  post–World War II, 138, 385, 395, 402, 411, 420, 429–36

  society, 12–18, 21–22, 24–32, 50, 62–63, 91–95, 110–18, 124–26, 198

  Tories, 3, 9, 101, 104, 122, 129, 132, 260, 286, 307, 317

  twentieth-century economics, 171, 175, 176, 240–42, 282–95, 306–311, 317, 331–33, 343–53, 354–64, 385

  U.S. relations with, 139–41, 359–42

  war debt, 245, 259, 355, 359

  wartime rationing, 385

  welfare, 6, 112–13, 131–38, 333, 420

  World War I, 197–200, 205, 206, 358

  World War II, 354–71, 372–73, 375–76, 383–89, 394–95

  Great Depression, xiv, 257, 262, 306–337, 347, 351, 362, 365, 366, 396–97, 414, 417, 423, 438, 462

  federal construction projects, 307, 315, 316, 331

  Fisher and, 311–15, 317–26, 327, 330

  Keynes and, 306–311, 315–17, 326–27, 355

  See also specific countries

  Great Exhibition, 34–36, 40, 43, 67

  Great Northern Railway, 156

  Great Western Railway, 95

  Greeley, Horace, 43

  Gross domestic product (GDP), 90, 140, 327, 384, 455, 458

  Grote Club, 56, 63, 341

  GRU, 397

  Gulik, Charles, 213

  H

  Haberler, Gottfried, 276

  Hadley, Arthur, 149

  Hagen, Everett, 419

  Halévy, Élie, 130

  Hamp, Pierre, La Peine des Hommes: Les Chercheurs D’Or, 265

  Hansen, Alvin, 385, 411

  Full Recovery or Stagnation, 411

  Harcourt, Geoffrey, 351, 431, 444

  Harding, Warren, 368

  Hardy, G. H., 240, 309, 447

  Harkness, Margaret, 94, 100, 111

  Harrod, Roy, xv, 441

  Harvard Economic Society, 312

  Harvard University, 194, 274, 317, 318, 344, 349, 350, 364, 411, 415–20

 

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