Metropolis (film), 203
Mexican Americans, deported during Great Depression, 190
Michel, Jean-Baptiste, 24
Milosz, Czeslaw, 57
Mitchell, Wesley C., 125, 309n10
Mitterrand, François, 42
“modern monetary theory,” 42
Modern Times (film), 195
modesty narrative: absent from George and Veblen works, 310n1; in Japanese “lost decades,” 150;
present decline in, 272
modesty narrative of Great Depression: bicycle craze and, 143; blue jeans and, 147–48; conspicuous
consumption and, 135, 136–37, 139, 142–45; decline in, 150
Modigliani, Franco, 301n13
Mokyr, Joel, 71
Moley, Raymond, 114
Monetary History of the United States (Friedman and Schwartz), 73, 132–33
monetary policy: causal impact on aggregate economy, 73; studies of narratives to infer motivations
of, 281; wage-price spiral narrative and, 261
monetary system: inflation and, 262; typical American’s confusion about, 170
monetary theory: invoked by bimetallism and Bitcoin, 22; “modern monetary theory” narrative, 42
money narratives, 173. See also Bitcoin narrative; gold standard narrative
money supply: gold discoveries of 1897 to 1914, 73; Great Depression and, 132–33
moral dimensions of economic narratives, 80; abstract economic forces and, xvii; American Dream
narrative and, 155; anger at business and, 239; annoyance with boycotts and, 241; concerns about
labor unions and, 258; databases of sermons relevant to, 284–85; frugality during Great Depression
and, 143; opposing pairs of narrative constellations and, 113; Roosevelt’s Depression fireside chat
and, 129, 278; about stock market crash of 1929, 235–36; wage-price spiral narrative and, 261–62,
266
morality in historical narrative, 37
Morgan, J. P., 111, 115, 117–18
Morson, Gary Saul, 16
Mullen, Thomas, 128
Muller, Jerry Z., 75, 306n5
multiplier-accelerator model, 24–25, 27–28, 27f, 303n7
music: brain structure and, 53, 54; narrative and, 35; songs that are one-hit wonders, 41–42
Music, Language and the Brain (Patel), 35
music market of sociology experiment, 39–40
mutation in evolutionary theory, 64
mutation of diseases, 108
mutation of economic narratives, 108–9; by attaching new celebrity, 102, 108–9; on
cryptocurrencies, 76; to more contagious forms, 31, 40; within narrative constellations, 86, 107;
randomness in, 31, 40; of recurrent narratives, 107, 109–10, 238; self-fulfilling prophecies derived
from, 74; of technological unemployment narrative, 196, 199
mutation of narratives: “Happy Birthday to You” and, 98–99; from hypnosis to autosuggestion, 122
Nakamoto, Satoshi, 4, 7–8, 108–9, 162, 193, 302n3, 302n8
names attached to narratives, 94–95
narrative economics: concept of, xi, 3; consilience and, 12; earlier use of the phrase, xi. See also
economic narratives
narrative economics research: artificial intelligence in, 276; databases to be used in, 279, 281–82,

284–85; data collection in, 276, 279–86; economic theory and, 277–79; exact methods with
humanistic approach in, 271–72; future of, 275–77; quantitative methods in, 279; remaining
nonpartisan in, 278–79; textual analysis in, 279, 287; tracking and quantifying narratives in, 286–
87
narrative psychology, 15, 65–67, 78, 287
narratives: academic disciplines attending to, 12, 13f; becoming economic narratives, 74; central to
thinking and motivation, 31–32; conspiracy theories in, 35–36; defined, xi; disrupted by brain
injury, 65–66; distinguishing humans from animals, 34–35; effective wording and delivery of, 271;
historical, 37; hormones of listener and, 54–55; as human constructs, 65; names attached to, 94–95;
norms of politeness in transmission of, 35; originating with one or a few people, 71–72; as
particular form of story, 36; as scripts or social norms, 37–38, 74, 77; social change and, 32–33;
universality of, 33–35. See also constellations of narratives; contagion of narratives; economic
narratives; mutation of narratives; stories; viral narratives
National Association of Realtors, 216, 219, 220
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): biggest economic events in US since 1854 defined
by, 111–12; chronicle of business cycles, 110; working paper database, 279
National Industrial Recovery Act, 132, 189, 252
“near-rational,” 300
network models, 296
neurolinguistics and narrative, 16–17; synonyms and, 94–95
neuroscience and narrative: hormones involved in, 54–55; research methods and, 287. See also brain
Newcomb, Anthony, 35
“New Deal,” coined by Stuart Chase, 185
The New Financial Order (Shiller), 38
news media: creative during major stock market corrections, 75; economic narratives spread through,
3, 21; improving retention with narrative presentation, 77; international economic narratives and,
110; marketing-driven, 61–62; in modified SIR model, 297; reminding public on anniversaries of
events, 76; searching for words and phrases in, x
Nixon, Richard, 173
normalcy, 244, 252
North, Douglass, 14
Northern Rock bank run in 2007, 119, 135
novels: classical symphony as, 35; understanding human experience and, 16. See also fiction
Noyes, Alexander Dana, 127, 164, 231
Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein), 278
nudge units, 277–78
NVIDIA Corporation, 20
O’Barr, William M., 15
Occupy Wall Street protest, 8, 225
office workplace: automation of, 204; labor-saving machinery narrative and, 186
Ohanian, Lee E., 132
oil embargo of 1973, 256
one-hit wonders, 41–42
Only Yesterday (Allen), ix–xi, 139
organ donation, narrative presentation of, 78
overlapping generations model, 24–25, 27f, 303n8
overproduction or underconsumption theory, 187–92
“Ownership Society” (Bush reelection slogan), 155
oxytocin, 54