Absentee owners, 98, 132

Advertising, 80, 91, 93, 122, 131

Aristotle, 11

Bandwagon Effect, 118–119

Borrowing, 66, 68-69

Business, xi, xxv–xxvi, 16, 23, 39, 47, 49–50, 50, 56–60, 63–65, 67, 71–72, 81–98, 130–132

Capital, 72–82, 86-89, 99, 128, 134

Capital goods, 73–82

Capitalism, xxv–xxvi, 60–61, 130, 132

Captain of Industry, 97–98

Clark, John Bates, ix, 73–75, 79

Community, 15, 18–20, 23, 30–31, 33, 35–37, 44, 48, 53–55, 59, 75–77, 79, 81–82, 86, 88, 90–91, 93–95, 97–99, 102–105, 107–108, 120, 122, 127

Conspicuous consumption, xix, 105, 108–111, 113, 115, 119, 123

Conspicuous leisure, 105, 107–110

Counter-snobbery, 119–120

Darwin, Charles, xxi, xxiii, 27, 53, 125, 127

Depression, x, 86, 89–90

Drudgery, 16, 56–57

Duesenberry, James, 120

Edgeworth, F.Y., 1, 3

Emulation, 12–13, 93, 103, 112, 118

Engels, Friedrich, 133

Engineers, 32, 47, 132

Equilibrium, xx, xxiii, 2, 27, 125–126

Evolution/Evolutionary, xxi–xxv, 3–4, 7–8, 12, 14, 26–27, 51–54, 71, 126–127, 134

Executive compensation, 99

Exploit, xii, 12, 14, 16, 23, 55–56, 94, 122

Fashion, 14, 24, 34, 106–107, 111, 115, 118–120

Genes, xxiv, 26–27, 126, 132

Gutenberg, Johann, 38

Habit, xxi–xxiv, 2, 4, 6, 18–27, 34–35, 38–53, 55–58, 61, 63–68, 71, 79, 88, 90, 94, 96, 106–107, 112–113, 115, 122, 125–126, 128–129, 133

Habit of Thought, 56–57, 115, 122

Handicraft era, 59–61, 63, 85

Heraclitus, 127

Idle Curiosity, xi, 11–12, 17, 35, 37, 49, 54, 60, 126

Immaterial equipment, 33–34

Industrial arts, 31, 34, 37, 39, 41, 77–78, 94, 97

Instinct of workmanship, 10, 12–13, 16, 49, 55–56, 60, 115, 129

Instincts

Group-regarding, 7–8, 11–12, 59, 93, 100

Self-regarding, 7, 9, 12, 14, 54–55, 93

Institutions, xii, xxi, xxiv–xxv, 3–5, 9, 12, 18, 20–27, 29, 32, 38–42, 44–52, 67–68, 71, 80, 90, 94, 103, 126, 128–130, 132–134

Institutional change, 29, 40, 41, 48–49, 51, 126–127

Intangible assets, 79–80

Investment, 68, 79, 81, 84, 87, 89

Invisible Hand, 129–130, 132