(1) - Give me control of a nations money supply, I care not who makes its laws
(2) - Online Data Robert Shiller
(3) - Search for America - Progress with Reinhold Niebuhr. You can also search of bunch of other interviews by Houston Smith. In this particular inerview Reinhold encapsulate the "zero sum" in human progress, or at least in capitalist system, minute 7:28. And in minute 10:52 he sums up what should have happened if we were to make "universal progress". He even states that "we are the one culture where the culture is subordiante to the economic process". I think that America has, since then, exported this "economic model" to the rest of advanced economies.
(4) - Search for America - The components of the S&P and their weights. Note the weight of the top 5 or 10 in the index.
(5) - What Were the Original Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Companies?
(6) - Dow Jones Industrial Average