Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets

Notes

¹Footage obtained by a team from the American NBC network, November 16, 2004.

²H. D. S. Greenway, “Hostility Grows over U.S. Stance,” Boston Globe, January 30, 2004.

³Jim Garamone, “JCS Chairman: U.S. Troops Fight for American Ideas, Ideals” AFPS, August 24, 2005. See also President Bush's Address to the Nation, September 11, 2006.

⁴Michael Sivak and Michael Flannagan, “Flying and Driving after the September 11 Attacks,” American Scientist 91, no. 1 (January–February 2003), 6–9.

⁵John McCain and Marshall Salter, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life (New York: Random House, 2004).

⁶Leif Wenar, cited in John Mueller, “Simplicity and Spook: Terrorism and the Dynamics of Threat Exaggeration,” International Studies Perspectives 6, no. 2 (2005), 221.

⁷Interview with General Richard Myers, CNN, aired November 11, 2000.

⁸“CEOs More Likely to Rely on Intuition Than Metrics When Making Business Decisions,” Business Wire, November 6, 2006.

⁹Dani Rodrik and Romain Wacziarg, “Do Democratic Transitions Produce Bad Economic Outcomes?,” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 95, no. 2 (May 2005): 50–55. Table at p. 53, www.stanford.edu/∼wacziarg/downloads/democratictransitions.pdf. Cited in Daniel Altman, “Politics as Growth Stimulant,” International Herald Tribune, January 8, 2005.

¹⁰James Bartholomew, The Welfare State We're In (London: Methuen, 2006).

¹¹“Sleep on It, Decision‐Makers Told,” BBC News, February 17, 2006.

¹²Jonathan Haidt, “The Emotional Dog and Its Rational ...