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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

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