Keynes, John Maynard, 120

Loan credit, 86

Lucas, Robert, xxi

Machine era, 61–62, 64–65, 81, 103

Machine process, 61–62, 64, 84, 86

Managers, 67, 81, 98–100, 131

Marketing, 91–92, 98, 131

Marx, Karl, xiv, xxiii, 3–4, 128

Mokyr, Joel, 11, 13, 43–45, 62–63

Nationalism, 23–24, 37, 94–95

Nature vs. Nurture, 4

Neoclassical economics, 3, 8, 75, 128, 130

Newtonian mechanics, xx

Overpopulation, 123

Ownership, 55–58, 60, 71–74, 77–79, 81–82, 86, 90, 93, 98, 103, 105–106

Parental bent, 8–10, 12, 14–15, 49, 54

Pareto, Vilfredo, xx

Pecuniary canons of taste, 113–115

Pecuniary occupations, 47, 92

Pleasure and pain, 2, 128

Predatory instinct, 15–16, 54, 100

Predatory culture, 55, 58–59

Professors, 10, 48

Progress, xii, 43, 51, 128

Ptolemy, 40, 128

Revolutions, 27, 43, 62, 126, 133–134

Sabotage, 82–83, 93, 95, 132

Savagery, 53, 55

Saving, 9, 120–122

Self-aggrandizement, 14–15, 58

Self-interest, 4, 8–9, 15, 129–132

Self-preservation, 12, 14, 103

Smith, Adam, xx, 36, 48, 94, 112, 129–131

Snob effect, 118–119

Social engineering, xxiv–, xxv

Speculative recklessness, 88

Specialization, 36

Status, 13–16, 23–25, 48–60, 71–72, 100, 102–103, 105–106, 109, 112–113, 119, 121–123

Tangible assets, 34, 75, 79–80, 87

Tariffs, 94–95

Technological change, 12, 29, 35–40, 45–50, 52, 54, 59–60, 71, 80, 117, 126, 128

Technology, xii, 12, 29–36, 38–39, 41–48, 51–54, 60–63, 65–69, 75–78, 80–83, 90, 94, 127–128

Time preference, 8–9

Tropisms, 6

Utility, 1–3, 100, 108–109

Veblen effect, 118–119

Vested interests, 26, 38, 93, 132–133