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225 Abélès, Marc, 145 “Aepyornis Island” (Wells), 140, 146, 147 aesthetics, 107, 109, 115n23 agriculture: capitalist, 84, 211; and civilization, 9; and greenhouse gases, 138n35; as impoverishing the land, 84, 127, 131; and industrialization, 85, 88, 89, 90, 130, 212–13; and Jefferson, 127–28; nonsustainable, 84, 130, 211; scientific, 88; and self-renewing practices, 12, 219; and Washington (George), 127–28; and water shortages, 85, 87 AIG (American International Group), 1, 117, 118 Akerlof, George: Animal Spirits (with Robert Schiller), 178–81 American dream; 17, 18–19, 26–27, 43; of home ownership, 5, 29, 35 American exceptionalism, 17, 116, 121 American way of life, 8, 49, 116, 119, 120 Anaximander (of Miletus), 6, 56–58, 69 Animal Spirits (Akerlof and Schiller), 178–81. See also Keynes, John Maynard animal spirits, 11, 178. See also Keynes, John Maynard Antigone, 58 Appleby, Joyce, 119 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 205 Aristotle, 205 Aron, Raymond, 113 Atwood, Margaret: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, 4, 116, 124 austerity, 2, 24 Avatar (Cameron), 11, 182–83 Bacevich, Andrew, 111 bailouts, 1, 2, 35, 117–18, 122, 165 bankruptcy, 44, 70n7; of Enron, 74; of Lehman Brothers, 1; in nineteenth century America, 27– 28, 42; personal, 117 Bartlett, Albert, 79 Bell, Daniel, 96, 99–103, 114 Bellah, Robert, 121–22 Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backward, 28, 133–34 biodiversity, 9, 145, 147, 216; loss of, 131, 144; in Madagascar, 142–43, 148, 161n45; salvaging of, 157, 159n18 Bleak House (Dickens), 166, 173, 174n3 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 106, 110 bookkeeping, 41; double-entry, 203 Boorstin, Daniel, 27 Borlaug, Norman, 130 Brooks, David, 165, 174 Bruton, Mary Frances, 31, 36n22 bubbles (economic), 3, 7, 21, 67, 74, 117–18, 170; real estate, 8, 22, 51, 54n41; stock market, 20–22, 23 Burke, Edmund, 10, 165, 167, 169, 174 Burney, David, 149 Burroughs, John, 134 Bush, George W., 3, 81, 118, 177, 182, 217 Calder, Lendol: Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit, 26–27, 43, 49, 53n12, 54n28 Calvinism, 101, 103 Cantor, Paul, 170, 176n26 capitalism: and agriculture, 84, 211; alternatives to, 25n4, 210; Anglo American, 3, 100–101; competitive nature of, 12; consequences of, 23– 24; creative destruction of, 169; crisis of, 14, 19, 21–23; and debt, 14, 17, 24, 27, 203–4, 210–11; and democracy, 7–8, 46, 96, 100, 106, 111–12, 114n3; and disintegration of social order, 96, 99–100, 104, 113, 119–21; and economic inequality, 82, 109; as an economy of unpaid costs, 210; the end of, 210; and environmental crisis, 12, 81, 83–89, 126, 210–21; and ethics, 101, 103, 111, 141; and free markets, 10, 99–100, 110, 114n3, 117; French, 106–7; global, 7, 141, 178, 218; and growth, 12, 74–79, 81, 83–84, 90–91, 126, 216; history of, 12; home ownership as response to, 29, 31, 33; Kapp’s general law of, 211; as opposed to collectivism, 170; pressures of, 27–28 carbon emissions, 81–83, 212, 214, 215, 216 carbon trading system, 82–83 Carlstead, Kathy, 151 Carson, Rachel, 144 Carter, Jimmy, 117 Cascio, Jamais, 217 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 141 Chapman, Olive Murray, 148 Christianity, 6, 12, 41, 98, 148, 205–7 Civil War (United States), 6, 42–43 Clark, Brett, 216 Index 226 | Index Clark, Mary E., 78 climate change, 126, 133, 141, 147, 222; doubts about, 132; and the global south, 131, 214–15; human-induced, 144; and mass extinction, 142; movements against, 221; and NASA, 215; and Tuvalu, 213–14; and the UN, 80–81, 138n35. See also climate debt; debt (and environment); ecological debt; global warming; greenhouse gases climate debt, 214–18. See also climate change; debt (and environment); ecological debt; global warming; greenhouse gases Clinton, William Jefferson (Bill), 118, 186 Cohen, Roger, 121 collateralized debt obligations (CDO), 117 Comaroff, Jean and John, 158 communism, 11, 26, 27, 94, 112, 213, 218 Communist Party, Chinese, 185, 197 confidence (economic), 67, 164, 172; as a category of Keynesian animal spirits, 178–79; and technology, 90 confidence man, 27 conservation, 88–89; biology, 141, 143, 147; debates about, 8; global, 143–44; on Madagascar, 9–10, 140–56, 158; during Progressive Era, 129–30; and temporality, 156–58 conservatism, 100, 111–12, 165 consumerism, 8, 27, 71n23, 75–77, 95, 98, 104–7, 109 consumption, 7, 14, 61, 105, 129, 154, 179; and the American dream, 18–19; Chinese, 192–97; conspicuous, 75–77; consumer, 6, 51, 100–101; and debt, 16, 44, 50, 53n14...

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