cultural factors affecting contagion rates, 274
Curley, James, 128
cybernation, 202
Daley, Daryl J., 296
databases for studying narratives, 279, 281–82, 284–85. See also search engines; searching digitized
data; textual analysis
Davis, Chester C., 190
Davis, Henry L., 167
Davis, Morris A., 214
Dean, James, 148
debt, and promotion of homeownership, 219
decision-making: automated by technology, 275; changed by economic narratives, 3; constellations
of narratives in determination of, 91; fear-related brain circuitry and, 57–58; focused interviews for
research on, 281; framing and, 66; of investors in stock market, 298–99; leading indicators
approach and, 125; by mass of people not well-informed, 86
deficit spending: of Hoover administration, 188; Laffer curve and, 42
deflation: in depression of 1920–21, 111, 243–45, 246, 251, 253; gold standard and, 157, 161; in
Great Depression, 253; wage cuts necessitated by, 188, 251
demand, depending on changes in narratives, 149–50
demand-pull inflation, 258
De Oratore (Cicero), 34
department store movement, 180
depression of 1873–79, 174, 176–79, 183, 188, 209
depression of 1893–99, 158, 159, 161, 163–65, 174, 179–81, 239, 241
depression of 1920–21, 111, 242–43; angry narratives in, 239, 241, 242; boycotts during, 254;
deflation in, 111, 243–45, 246, 251, 253; excess profits tax contributing to, 249; fair wage narrative
in, 250; family morale in, 138; fear of ostentation in, 144; Great Depression of 1930s and, 243,
251–53; labor-saving machine narrative and, 181–82; narratives causing abrupt end of, 250–51;
postponement of purchases contributing to, 245, 246, 249; technocracy and, 193
depression of 1930s. See Great Depression of 1930s
depressions: in American colonies following French and Indian War, 58–59; biggest in US since
1854, 111–12; causes listed by economic historians, 112; crowd psychology and suggestibility in
understanding of, 120; expected after World War II, 196–97, 199; gold standard narrative during,
158–59; information cascades and, 300; as narratives in themselves, 112; nineteenth-century
worldviews and, 116–17; psychologically based economic narrative of, 118; technological
unemployment narrative during, 176
The Desk Set (film), 201
devaluation: entering English language in 1914, 159; as positive terminology, 172–73; of US dollar
in 1933, 172
dial telephone, and unemployment, 187, 190–91
digital divide, 211
digital signature algorithm, 5, 9–10
The Disposable American (Uchitelle), 150
donkeys for important ideas, 26, 303n11
dot-com boom, 109, 205, 206
dreaming: narrative form of, 32; suggestibility and, 120, 121
driverless vehicles, 8–9, 174–75, 207, 314n1
Dust Bowl, 130–31
dysnarrativia, 65–66