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  MacNeice, Louis: Autumn Journal, 264

  Mahler, Gustav, 125, 127, 154, 155

  Mandela, Nelson, 128, 210

  Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, 122, 123

  market philosophy, limitations of, 13–31

  Marx, Karl, 13

  Maslow, 101, 102

  Menotti, Gian-Carlo, 124, 125

  mercenaries, 165, 185

  Microsoft, 144, 158, 161

  Mildmay Mission Hospital, Shoreditch, 260–1

  Mill, John Stuart, 137–8

  Mitsui corporation, 156

  Mohn, Rheinhard, 174

  Monde Diplomatique, Le, 50–1

  money, the trouble with, 14–17

  Mulgan, Geoff, 132, 183, 242

  Naisbitt, John, 140

  Netscape company, 158

  New York Stock Exchange, 164

  Nietzsche, 108

  Norfolk Island, 120

  North, Douglass, 36

  Orwell, George: Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 14–15

  others, necessity of, 130–50

  Oxfam, 160, 169, 184

  Packard, David, 77

  Pascal, 87, 112

  patronage, 166–9

  Pearston, Ann, 261–2

  pension plans, 236–9

  Perot, Ross, 142, 144

  personal sovereignty, age of, 65–85

  Picasso, Pablo, 123

  Piero della Francesca: Resurrection, 262–3

  Plato, 68

  Plender, John, 166

  Porras, Jerry, 78

  Prince’s Youth Business Trust, 45

  privatization, 234, 236

  Proper Selfishness, 9, 86–107, 130, 132, 133, 138, 139, 153, 166, 205, 251, 255

  hungry self, 88–9

  morality of selfishness, 103–7

  puzzle of identity, 92–9

  the three steps, 99–103

  white stone, 89–92

  purpose in life, quest for a, 63–150

  Putnam, Robert, 145

  Ray, Paul, 88

  Rees-Mogg, William, 72

  referenda, democracy by, 247–8

  Reichfield, Frederick, 185

  religious option, 83–5

  Rockefeller, John D., 114

  Roddick, Anita, 192

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 169–70

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 82

  Royal Dutch Shell Group, 156

  Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), 230, 233

  St Luke’s advertising agency, 194–6

  St Petersburg, 121–2

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 7

  Schumacher, E. F., 56–7

  Small is Beautiful, 56

  Schumpeter, Joseph, 35, 36

  search for meaning, 108–29

  Silicon Valley, California, 57, 197

  Singapore, standard of living, 54

  state expenditure, 233, 236, 238

  Singer, Peter, 87

  Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 55–6

  Smart, Jeffrey, 31

  Smith, Adam, 14, 17, 22, 30, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 61, 105, 255, 256, 259

  social revolution, 67–73

  Society for Neuroscience, 80

  Sora company, 156

  Soros, George, 4, 132–3

  Spoleto Festival, 124–5, 127

  Springfield Re-Manufacturing company, Missouri, 200–1

  Stack, Jack: The Great Game of Business, 200–1

  stakeholding, 166

  Stanford Research Institute, 99–101

  Steinberg, Laurence: Beyond the Classroom, 148–9

  Swindon, Wilts, study of, 147

  taste of the sublime, 121–6

  Tawney, R. H., 209

  Taylor-Thompson, Helen, 260–1

  tax structure, 230, 239, 243–5

  Thatcher, Margaret, 88

  Thuillier, Pierre: The Great Implosion: a report on the collapse of the West, 1999–2002, 49–50

  Thurlow, Baron, 157

  tilting society, 39–42

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 145

  towards a decent society, 151–252

  trust, 184–94

  cardinal principles, 187–94

  Tufts University, 214

  Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 123

  unions, trades, 163, 164, 180

  University of the First Age, Birmingham, 226

  Van Gogh, Vincent, 130

  Visa, 182

  Vonnegut, Kurt, 7

  voucher schemes, 234–6

  Whyte, David, 159

  Wilson, Edward, 79

  Wood, Victoria, 96

  work restoration, 240–2

  World Economic Forum, Davos, 52–5

  X Inc., 197–9

  Zeldin, Theodore, 246

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