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hydroelectric plants 275

Ickes, Barry 277

Ignatieff, Nikolay 80

imitation 42 , 71 , 83 , 148 –9, 170 –3

and import substitution 75 –6, 83 , 94 , 124 , 170 , 173 , 193 , 198

and progress 174

Incas 34 , 176

India 4 , 17 , 42 , 51 , 66 , 74 , 77 –81, 84 , 94 , 98 , 105 , 111 , 114 –15, 118 , 137 , 165 , 170 , 225 , 290

indirect rule 51 , 123

Industrial Revolution 118 –21, 160 , 207 , 213

and coal 203 , 243 –5

and patents 116 , 120 , 240

and proto-industry 212

and slavery 85

and watermills 240 –2

industrialisation 124 , 133 , 207 , 258 –9, 261 , 293

inequality 5 , 294 , 300 –1

criticisms of 33 , 42 , 84 , 178

and geography 77 , 121 251

and metals 127 , 129 , 195

and oil 251 , 267 –9, 276 , 278 , 281 –5

and political evil 5 , 42 , 68 , 79

inflation 4 , 83 , 145 , 182 , 238 , 248 , 263 , 265 , 272 , 274

infrastructure 23 , 161 , 283 , 294

see also transportation

Innis, Harold 4 , 53 –4, 177

insects 88 –9, 92 , 114 , 167 , 291 , 300

institutions 5 , 9 , 70 , 86 , 179 , 232 , 246

and resources 5 , 9 , 274 –6, 285

insurance 45 , 200

Ireland 34 , 37 , 95 , 100 , 102 , 113 , 199 , 212 , 220 –2, 237

iron 127 , 130 –4, 152 , 218

bog iron (limonite) 130 –3, 155 –6

Iron Age 130 –2

iron goods 18 , 25 , 27 , 47 , 51 , 101 , 104 , 133 , 201

see also metallurgic processes

Iroquois 51 –3

Istanbul (Tsargrad, Constantinople) 49 , 217

Italy 17 , 25 , 44 , 90 –2, 117 –18, 129 , 143 , 160 , 193 , 234 , 286

Ivan III, grand prince of Moscow 141

Ivan the Terrible, tsar of Russia 97 –103, 162

Ivanovo (central Russia) 122

Jamaica 45 , 68 –9, 72 –3, 84 , 221

James I, king of England and Ireland (James VI of Scotland) 102 –3, 111

Japan 56 , 71 , 81 , 88 , 90 , 92 , 260

Jefferson, Thomas 59 , 109 , 217 –18

Jenkinson, Anthony 98

Jesus 1 , 42

Jevons, William Stanley 64 , 193 , 223 –6, 243 –4, 273 , 292

Jevons paradox 64 , 292

Jews 41 , 127 , 227 –8, 237

Justi, Johann von 54 –5, 159

Kant, Immanuel 167

kaolin 149

katechon 296 –7

Katowice 291 –2

Katte, Hans Hermann von 235

Kaufmann, Konstantin 124

Keats, John 187

kerosene 254 –7, 259

Kett, Robert, rebellion 110

Keynes, John Maynard 5 , 219 , 221 –3, 225 –7, 248 , 271 , 273 , 279 , 283 , 294

Commod Control 227 , 248

Khlysts (Russian sect) 42

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail 155

Kirkcaldy 186

Kirov, Sergey 258 –9

Knorr, Klaus 198

Kodiak island 55 , 58

Kokorev, Vasily 255

Kolchak, Alexander 181

Königsberg 18

Krasin, Leonid 259

Krusenstern, Ivan 57

Küstrin 235

Kuznets, Simon 294

Kyakhta 56 , 105

Kyoto Agreement 290 , 297

La Salle, Robert Cavelier de 187

labour 2 –5, 9 , 14 , 29 , 41 , 45 –6, 51 , 54 –5, 60 –1, 67 –70, 82 –3, 85 –6, 88 –9, 93 , 95 , 101 –7, 110 , 113 , 115 –18, 121 –2, 124 –6, 128 , 152 , 156 , 157 , 165 –8, 172 , 174 –5, 177 –81, 185 , 188 , 193 –5, 201 –14, 216 , 218 –19, 222 , 224 –7, 229 , 233 –4, 241 –3, 245 –7, 249 , 251 –2, 254 , 257 , 262 , 265 –6, 269 –71, 275 , 278 –81, 283 –7, 293 –5, 300 –1

forced labour 18 , 26 , 60 , 67 , 75 –6, 85 , 93 , 170

labour-dependent countries 177 –9, 285 –6

labour-intensive commodities 2 , 18 , 39 , 67 , 157 , 233 , 247 –9, 266 , 271 , 278 , 294

labour theory of value 162 –3, 201 , 209 –11

landowners 1 –2, 18 , 26 –31, 34 –6, 101 , 105 , 107 , 109 , 115 , 121 , 134 , 139 , 149 , 153 , 173 , 194 –5, 217 , 222 , 241 , 284

Langsdorf, Georg 57

Lasky, Jan 51

Latour, Bruno 4 , 283 , 288 –9, 296

laudanum 78

Law, John 186 , 189 –94, 214

law of comparative advantage 3 , 178 –9, 194 , 208 , 225

law of diminishing returns 4 , 25 , 65 , 253 , 262

laziness, indolence, idleness 28 , 30 , 34 , 82 , 116 , 171 , 173 –5, 221 –2

and natives 221 –2

and peasants 30 , 82 , 114 , 170 –4, 205

statistical use of the three words 173

see also mercantile pump

lead (metal) 64 , 136 –7, 143 , 147 –8, 150 , 152

League of Nations 227

Lebensraum 227

Ledyard, John 55

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 77 , 154

Lenin, Vladimir 117

Leviathan 112 –13, 124 , 202 , 210 , 232 , 252 , 287 –9, 298 , 301

Liebig, Justus von 41

linen (and flax) 16 , 25 , 30 , 83 , 86 , 92 –6, 100 , 102 , 104 , 114 –20, 122 , 135 , 152 , 194 , 207 , 233