an apparatus for the whole work — every figure and every idea located in the plates where it appears, and linked to it
What an index is for An atlas earns its name in the index: the place where any figure or idea can be found, and the whole work becomes a thing to consult as well as to read.
A treatise becomes a reference only when it can be consulted, and a reference is consulted through its index. What follows is the apparatus of the whole work: two indexes, of the figures and of the subjects, each entry pointing to the plates where the figure appears or the idea is developed, and each location a link that opens the plate itself.
The Index of Figures gathers the economists, philosophers, and theorists whose work the volumes draw upon — 138 names, from Acemoglu to Williamson — each followed by the volumes and plates in which they are discussed. The Index of Subjects gathers 49 of the central ideas — from accelerator to transaction costs — each located in the plate or plates that treat it most directly. Together they are the gazetteer of the map: the way to find, among three hundred and twelve plates, the one you want.
Names are listed by surname and ideas by their common term, both alphabetically; the small italic gives the volume, and the figures after it the plates within it, each a link to the plate. The index is selective rather than exhaustive — it records where a figure or idea is treated, not every passing mention — and, like everything in the atlas, it may be entered at any point. To consult it is to step sideways into the work, at exactly the plate one is looking for.
Acemoglu The Wage xi · The Rent vi · The Growth x
Aghion The Power ix
Akerlof The Premium vi · The Asymmetry i, ii, ix, xii · The Contract x · The Cycle xi
Alchian The Firm v
Allais The Utility viii · The Choice v, xii · The Bias vii
Arrow The Wage vi · The Premium ii, v, vii · The Utility x, xii · The Power ix · The Asymmetry x, xi · The Game x · The Norm viii
Atkinson The Tax v · The Share x
Baumol The Rent vi · The Power iii
Becker The Wage iv, vi · The Growth viii · The Choice x, xi, xii
Bentham The Utility i, ii, ix, xi, xii · The Choice iii
Berle The Firm vii
Bernanke The Rate ix · The Cycle vi
Bernoulli The Premium ii, xii · The Utility vi, vii, viii · The Choice v
Bertrand The Spread vii · The Power v · The Game xi
Bowles The Norm vi, vii, ix, x
Buchanan The Commons x
Chamberlin The Power iv
Clark The Wage ii, iii · The Margin vii · The Growth x · The Share iv
Coase The Externality i, v, vi, vii, xii · The Firm i, ii · The Rule iii · The Bias viii
Condorcet The Utility x
Cournot The Power v · The Game xi
Dales The Externality vii
Demsetz The Spread iii, xii · The Power iv · The Commons v, xii · The Firm v
Diamond The Wage x · The Spread ix · The Money ix · The Tax vii · The Cycle vii · The Growth x
Domar The Growth iv
Dybvig The Spread ix · The Money ix · The Cycle vii
Edgeworth The Surplus ix
Ellsberg The Utility viii · The Choice v, xii
Fama The Bias x
Fehr The Norm vi
Fisher The Rate ii, iii, iv, vi, vii, xii · The Stock iv · The Cycle vii, viii · The Level iii, x · The Choice iii
Friedman The Rent iii · The Spread x, xi · The Firm x · The Money iv, viii, x, xii · The Tax iv · The Cycle x · The Level iii, vii · The Choice vii
Frisch The Cycle iv
Galbraith The Wage ix · The Power vii · The Choice x
Gale The Rule viii
Gneezy The Norm x
Goodwin The Cycle iv
Grossman The Firm vi
Hardin The Commons i, ii, vi, vii, viii, xi, xii
Harrod The Growth iv
Hart The Firm vi
Hayek The Choice x · The Norm ii, vii
Hicks The Rate v · The Margin xi · The Surplus iii, x, xii · The Utility iii · The Power ix · The Money i · The Cycle iii · The Choice iii
Hirschman The Power iv
Hotelling The Rent viii
Hume The Contract i, xi · The Money iv, v, x · The Cycle v · The Level ii · The Norm ii, vii
Hurwicz The Game x
Jevons The Margin ii, viii · The Utility ii · The Choice iii
Kahneman The Premium xi · The Utility viii, xi · The Choice viii · The Bias i, ii, v, vi
Kaldor The Wage xii · The Surplus x · The Share ii
Kalecki The Power ii · The Share vii
Keynes The Rent vii, xii · The Rate ii, iv, v, ix, xii · The Spread x · The Stock x · The Money v · The Cycle ii, iii, viii, xi, xii · The Level ii · The Share ii, viii · The Bias x
Knight The Premium i · The Choice v
Krueger The Wage vii, viii · The Rent vi
Kydland The Rate xi · The Cycle x · The Level xi
Laffer The Tax vii, viii · The Level iv, v
Lerner The Power ii
Lucas The Cycle x, xii · The Growth vii, viii · The Level vi, vii
Malthus The Wage iii · The Growth ii, xi
Mankiw The Growth viii
Markowitz The Premium viii, ix, xii
Marshall The Rent iv, xii · The Rate iv · The Margin ii, xii · The Surplus i, ii, iii · The Utility ii · The Externality i · The Choice iii
Marx The Wage iii · The Margin ii · The Surplus v · The Firm viii · The Share vii
Meade The Externality iii
Meckling The Firm v
Menger The Margin ii · The Money ii
Milgrom The Spread v, xii · The Rule vii
Mill The Rent vii · The Norm xi
Minsky The Cycle iv, vi, vii, xii
Mirrlees The Firm v · The Tax viii
Montgomery The Externality vii
Morgenstern The Premium ii · The Utility vii, viii · The Choice v · The Game i
Mortensen The Wage x
Myerson The Game x
Nash The Wage x · The Surplus ix · The Power v · The Game ii, vii, viii, xi, xii
Nordhaus The Rate x · The Externality xi
North The Growth x · The Norm i
Nozick The Tax i
Olson The Commons iv · The Rule v
Ostrom The Commons i, iv, vii, viii, ix, xii · The Norm ix
Pareto The Margin xi · The Surplus xi · The Utility iii, ix · The Choice iii
Pasinetti The Share v
Phelps The Wage vi · The Asymmetry x · The Cycle x · The Level vii · The Share iii
Phillips The Cycle x, xii · The Level vi, vii, viii, xi, xii
Pigou The Wage viii · The Externality i, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, xii · The Tax iv · The Rule iii
Piketty The Rent vii, ix, xii · The Rate xii · The Stock ix · The Tax v · The Share x
Pissarides The Wage x
Polanyi The Rule i, iii · The Norm x
Prescott The Rate xi · The Premium ix · The Cycle x · The Level xi
Quesnay The Surplus iv
Rabin The Choice vi
Rajan The Norm ix
Ramsey The Rate x · The Tax viii
Rawls The Contract xi
Ricardo The Rent i, ii, ix, xii · The Margin ii · The Surplus iv · The Share i, ii, vi, viii, xii
Robinson The Wage viii, xii · The Rent vi · The Stock v · The Power iv · The Growth x · The Share v
Roth The Rule vi, viii, ix · The Game x
Rothschild The Premium vi · The Asymmetry vii
Saez The Tax vii · The Share x
Samuelson The Wage xii · The Utility v · The Stock v · The Cycle iii · The Level vi · The Share v · The Choice iv, ix
Sargent The Money vii · The Cycle x · The Level v, viii
Savage The Utility viii
Schelling The Contract ii · The Game v, vi · The Norm ii, vii
Schumpeter The Power ix · The Tax i
Sen The Utility ix
Shiller The Cycle xi
Shleifer The Rent vi · The Externality x
Simon The Rent viii · The Firm i, viii · The Contract v · The Growth xi · The Choice vii, xii · The Norm vi
Slutsky The Utility iii · The Cycle iv
Smith The Wage i, ii, iii, v, viii, ix · The Margin i, ii · The Firm v, vii, xii · The Money x · The Rule i, iv · The Share vi, vii
Solow The Stock v · The Growth iv, v, vi, viii, ix · The Level vi · The Share v
Spence The Wage iv · The Asymmetry i, vi, xii · The Contract x
Sraffa The Wage xii · The Surplus iv · The Stock v · The Share v, vi
Stern The Rate x · The Externality xi
Stigler The Wage x · The Power iii · The Rule v · The Choice x
Stiglitz The Rent iii · The Premium vi · The Asymmetry i, vii, viii, xi, xii · The Tax v
Swan The Growth v
Thaler The Bias i
Tirole The Power xi
Tobin The Stock vi
Tullock The Rent vi · The Surplus vi · The Power viii · The Rule v
Tversky The Premium xi · The Utility viii · The Choice viii · The Bias i, v, vi
Vickrey The Rule vii · The Game ix, x
Vishny The Rent vi · The Externality x
Walras The Margin ii
Weber The Growth x
Weitzman The Externality viii, xi
Whinston The Power vi
Wicksell The Rate vi, xii · The Money xii · The Cycle v, xii
accelerator The Stock vi
adverse selection The Asymmetry ii, iii
Arrow's impossibility theorem The Utility x
bounded rationality The Choice vii
business cycle The Cycle i, ii
Cambridge capital controversy The Stock v · The Share v
Coase theorem The Externality v, vi
consumer surplus The Surplus i
creative destruction The Power ix
deadweight loss The Surplus vi · The Tax iii
diminishing marginal utility The Margin iii · The Utility ii
expected utility The Utility vi, vii
externality The Externality i, ii
human capital The Wage iv · The Growth viii
indifference curve The Utility iii
invisible hand The Firm xii
labor share The Share ii
liquidity preference The Rate v · The Stock x
loss aversion The Bias vi
marginal product The Margin vii · The Share iv
mechanism design The Rule vi · The Game x
minimum wage The Wage vii
monopsony The Wage viii · The Power vii
moral hazard The Asymmetry iv
Nash equilibrium The Game ii
nudge The Bias xi
Pareto efficiency The Surplus xi
Phillips curve The Level vii
Pigouvian tax The Externality iv
present value The Rate x · The Stock iv
principal and agent The Asymmetry v · The Firm v
prisoner's dilemma The Game iii
production function The Share iii
prospect theory The Utility viii · The Bias vi
public goods The Externality iii · The Commons x
quantity theory of money The Money iv · The Level iii
rational expectations The Level vii
revealed preference The Utility v · The Choice iv
risk aversion The Premium ii · The Utility vii
screening The Asymmetry vii
signaling The Asymmetry vi
Solow residual The Growth vi
steady state The Stock vii · The Growth v
time inconsistency The Rate xi · The Level xi
tradable permits The Externality vii
tragedy of the commons The Commons ii