Index
A page number followed by f refers to a figure or its caption.
The A B C of Technocracy (Arkright), 193
Abelson, Robert P., 37
Adams, James Truslow, 151, 153–54
Adbusters, 8
Addams, Jane, xvii
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., 20
advertisements: for homeownership, 219–20; online searching of, x; phrase American Dream in, 154
affect heuristic, 67, 233
Aiden, Erez, 24
AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), 24
Akerlof, George, xviii, 61, 64, 67, 250, 300, 301n13
Aldrich-Vreeland Act, 117
Alexa, of Amazon Echo, 8, 207
Alibaba’s Tmall Genie, 207
Alice, Yandex, 207
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 189
Allen, Frederick Lewis, ix–xi, 139
Allen, Lily, 92
AlphaZero chess computer program, 208, 316n22
Amazon’s Echo, 207
American Dream (O’Neil), 153
The American Dream (Albee), 153
American Dream Downpayment Assistance Act, 154
American Dream narrative, 151–55, 152f; stock market crash of 1929 and, 231
American Federation of Labor, 241
The American Plutocracy (Howard), 166
analogies, brain response to, 17
anarchism: Bitcoin narrative and, 5–7; history of, 6
Angell, Norman, 95
anger about inflation, 239, 263–64, 265–66; during wars, 265; after World War I, 245, 247
anger at businesspeople: boycott narrative and, 240; cuts in wages and, 239; depressions of 1920–21
and 1930s and, 243; inflation and, 239, 245, 247, 263–64, 265; profiteer narrative and, 241–43,
245, 247, 248–49, 250. See also boycott narrative
anger at oil crisis of 1970s, 256
animal spirits: business confidence and, xvi; Keynes’s idea of, 138

Animal Spirits (Akerlof and Shiller), 64
Anthropology: creation myths in, 15; economists learning from, 78
Apple Computer: Siri and, 8, 206–7, 287; Steve Jobs and, 208–9
Arab oil embargo of 1973, 256
archetypes, Jungian, 15
ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) models, 295, 322n9
Aristotle, 174–75
Arkright, Frank, 193
Arkwright, Richard, 193
artificial intelligence, in narrative economics research, 276, 287
artificial intelligence narrative, 196, 197f, 199, 211. See also robots
Atari, 203
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 50
autism spectrum disorder, narrative disruption in, 66
Automata (Hero of Alexandria), 175
automated assistants, 8. See also Siri (Apple)
automation narrative: difference from labor-saving machinery narrative, 199; as epidemic around
1955–66, 199–202; mutated in recessions of early 1980s, 204; with new catchphrases in 2000s,
205; offices and, 204; percentage of articles containing automation, 197f; post–World War II, 196;
robots and, 191; second scare during 1980s, 202–4; surge in fears beginning around 2016, 206–8;
third spike in concern around 1995, 204–5; unemployment and, 199–200, 204. See also robots
“automation recession” of 1957–58, 201, 264
autosuggestion narrative, 119, 120f, 121–23
baby boom, optimism associated with, 198
baby boomers retiring, elevated stock market and, 29
Baker, Charles Whiting, 210
bank failures: Great Recession of 2007–9 and, 132; loss of confidence during Great Depression and,
132
Bank of Canada, 156\
bank runs: during 1857 financial panic, 115; in 1873, during depression, 176; in 1893, 164–65; in
2007 and 2008, 119, 134–35; as crisis of confidence, 114; Great Depression and, 133, 134–35;
Roosevelt’s “fireside chat” during, 129, 278
banks taking risk, ten years after 2007–9 financial crisis, 55–56
Barthes, Roland, 85
Bartholomew, D. J., 296
Baruch, Bernard, 236, 237
Basic Income Earth Network, 210
basic story structures, 15–16
Bauckhage, Christian, 297–98
Baum, L. Frank, 171, 313n29
“beauty contest” metaphor, 63–64
behavioral economics, 277–78. See also economic behavior affected by narratives
beliefs of public, and major economic events, xv
Bell, Brad E., 78
Bergman, Ingmar, 49
Bernanke, Ben, 156–57
best seller lists, 88
Bewley, Truman, 147, 281
bicycle craze in the Depression, 143, 149