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2,723 concepts

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biodiversity loss — 94 books
first published 1999 added 3 Oct 2023
extinction of species worldwide, and also the local reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat
+88
narrative nonfiction — 50 books
first published 1999 added 17 Jun 2024
+44
Metcalfe’s law — 73 books
first published 1999 added 14 Feb 2017
+67
carbon credits — 96 books
first published 1999 added 25 Sep 2023
certificates that allow the holder to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide, often traded as part of emissions reduction schemes
+90
space tourism — 79 books
first published 1999 added 23 Nov 2023
space travel for recreational purposes
+73
Brewster Kahle — 41 books
first published 1999
American computer engineer, founder of the Internet Archive
person
+35
internet strangers — 72 books
first published 1999 added 28 Feb 2024
+66
Metcalfe's law — 73 books
first published 1999
empirical rule that that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of its number of users
+67
Helicobacter pylori — 43 books
first published 1999 added 26 Oct 2021
+37
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) — 101 books
first published 1999 added 5 Mar 2017
+95
regenerative medicine — 62 books
first published 1999 added 23 Nov 2023
+56
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic — 76 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
+70
Ted Kaczynski — 46 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
+40
Hans Moravec — 65 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 20 Nov 2021
an Austrian-born roboticist and futurist known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the future of non-biological intelligence.
+59
Innovator's Dilemma — 147 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
+141
ought to be enough for anybody — 5 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 13 Feb 2017
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers — 17 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
+11
quantum entanglement — 67 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 5 Oct 2023
+61
Ray Kurzweil — 248 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
American author, scientist, inventor and futurist
person
+242
Law of Accelerating Returns — 49 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
perceived increase in the rate of technological change throughout history
+43
Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem — 53 books
first published 31 Dec 1998
paper by Alan Turing, foundational to theoretical computer science
+47
punch-card reader — 12 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 25 Apr 2023
+6
There's no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home - Ken Olsen — 13 books
first published 31 Dec 1998 added 14 Feb 2017
+7
Edward Lorenz: Chaos theory — 30 books
first published 1 Dec 1998
+24
Livingstone, I presume — 30 books
first published 5 Nov 1998
+24
surplus humans — 16 books
first published 5 Nov 1998
+10
Nick Leeson — 69 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
former derivatives broker
person
+63
Edward Glaeser — 153 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
American economist (born 1967)
+147
two tier labour market — 8 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
+2
Tobin tax — 44 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
a proposed tax on spot currency conversions, named after economist James Tobin, aimed at reducing volatility in foreign exchange markets
+38
invention of the sewing machine — 7 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 20 Mar 2018
the development of a machine for stitching fabric, attributed to various inventors but commercialised by Isaac Singer in the 19th century
+1
pension time bomb — 6 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 9 Dec 2022
winner-take-all economy — 94 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
+88
pensions crisis — 32 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
predicted difficulty in maintaining pensions
+26
everywhere but in the productivity statistics — 31 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
a phrase describing the paradox where technological advancements seem ubiquitous but do not appear to be reflected in improved productivity metrics.
+25
lump of labour — 18 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
+12
Meghnad Desai — 20 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 22 Jun 2023
British economist and politician (born 1940)
+14
Mahbub ul Haq — 16 books
first published 29 Oct 1998 added 1 Aug 2021
Pakistani economist (1934-1998)
+10
Diane Coyle — 50 books
first published 29 Oct 1998
+44
yottabyte — 14 books
first published 31 Aug 1998 added 5 Oct 2023
a unit of digital information storage, equivalent to one septillion bytes
+8
currency manipulation / currency intervention — 100 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
+94
bond market vigilante — 33 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 25 Oct 2021
investors who sell bonds, driving up yields, as a protest against fiscal or monetary policies they consider inflationary
+27
Slavoj Žižek — 65 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for his work on psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critical theory
+59
The Market for Lemons — 61 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
1970 paper by the economist George Akerlof
+55
Hyman Minsky — 109 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
American economist
+103
microcredit — 92 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
Cheap credit (banks which charge loans at low rate of interest)
+86
pension reform — 74 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
changes made to pension systems to ensure long-term sustainability or improved benefits
+68
long and variable lags — 6 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 15 Oct 2022
liquidationism / Banker’s doctrine / the Treasury view — 22 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
+16
George Akerlof — 158 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
an American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on information asymmetry
person
+152
System of National Accounts — 31 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 3 Apr 2025
accounting for nations
+25
The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth — 22 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 23 Feb 2017
a quote highlighting the global reach and convenience of modern commerce, often attributed to Keynes
+16
natural interest rate — 10 books
first published 30 Aug 1998 added 4 Nov 2023
+4
payday loans — 132 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
+126
Financial Instability Hypothesis — 40 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
an economic theory proposed by Hyman Minsky, suggesting that financial markets are inherently unstable and prone to crises
+34
equity premium — 40 books
first published 30 Aug 1998
+34
Kenneth Rogoff — 170 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
Economist and chess player
+164
second-price auction — 147 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
auction priced by second-highest sealed bid
+141
market design — 130 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
practical methodology for creation of markets of certain properties, which is partially based on mechanism design
+124
Al Roth — 9 books
first published 11 Jun 1998
an American economist known for his work in game theory, market design, and experimental economics. He is a Nobel laureate in Economics.
person
+3
addicted to oil — 48 books
first published 11 May 1998 added 4 Sep 2017
over-reliance on oil as an energy source
+42
F. W. de Klerk — 27 books
first published 11 May 1998 added 3 Feb 2017
7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
+21
David Brooks — 239 books
first published 21 Apr 1998
+233
type inference — 40 books
first published 12 Apr 1998
automatic detection of the data type of an expression in a programming language
+34
William Langewiesche — 41 books
first published 15 Feb 1998 added 13 Feb 2017
American journalist
+35
Paul Erdős — 49 books
first published 15 Jan 1998
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
person
+43
Zipf's Law — 50 books
first published 15 Jan 1998
+44
forensic accounting — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1998
accounting of engagements from disputes or litigation which have or are expected to happen
+70
information asymmetry — 231 books
first published 1998 added 27 Aug 2017
a situation in which one party in a transaction has more or better information than the other, creating an imbalance of power
+225
The Turner Diaries — 11 books
first published 1998 added 9 Jul 2023
+5
When Old Technologies Were New — 14 books
first published 1998 added 30 Jul 2024 book
+8
error bars — 52 books
first published 1998 added 15 Aug 2024
+46
Carl Malamud — 14 books
first published 1998 added 11 Dec 2025
American technologist, author and public domain advocate (1959-)
person
+8
workplace surveillance — 21 books
first published 1998 added 22 Sep 2023
the use of technology to monitor employees in the workplace, often to improve productivity or security
+15
mandatory minimum — 68 books
first published 1998 added 26 Feb 2017
+62
Extropian — 32 books
first published 1998
+26
Bollinger bands — 17 books
first published 1998 added 28 Oct 2023
type of statistical chart characterizing the prices and volatility of a financial instrument or commodity
+11
Kuiper Belt — 41 books
first published 8 Sep 1997
area of the Solar System beyond the planetary orbits comprising small bodies
+35
remunicipalization — 5 books
first published 8 Sep 1997 added 25 Sep 2023
safety bicycle — 24 books
first published 1 Sep 1997 added 20 Aug 2022
archaic term for pedal-driven bicycles with equal-size front and rear wheels, geartrain and tires ("common" bicycle)
+18
avocado toast — 48 books
first published 14 Aug 1997 added 9 Sep 2024
+42
discovery of the americas — 47 books
first published 14 May 1997
the exploration and subsequent colonization of the Americas by European powers, starting with Christopher Columbus in 1492
+41
Guggenheim Bilbao — 45 books
first published 14 May 1997
Museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Spain
+39
mega-yacht — 60 books
first published 14 May 1997 added 10 Jan 2025
+54
Islamic Golden Age — 37 books
first published 14 May 1997
period of cultural flourishing in the 8th to 13th centuries
+31
Blue Zone — 50 books
first published 14 May 1997 added 25 Jan 2024
+44
seigniorage — 49 books
first published 3 Feb 1997
profit from minting money
+43
cyber war — 156 books
first published 3 Feb 1997 added 27 Oct 2023
+150
Salesforce — 267 books
first published 18 Jan 1997 added 13 Feb 2022
+261
Kickstarter — 381 books
first published 16 Jan 1997 tech
+375
The Great Good Place — 32 books
first published 15 Jan 1997
+26
caloric restriction — 47 books
first published 2 Jan 1997 added 24 Oct 2021
scientific article published on June 2011
+41
Henry Singleton — 17 books
first published 2 Jan 1997 added 13 Feb 2022
+11
dividend-yielding stocks — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1997
stocks that pay dividends on a regular basis, often appealing to investors looking for current income in addition to capital growth.
+8
Augustin-Louis Cauchy — 10 books
first published 1997
+4
John Conway — 37 books
first published 1997
+31
hedonic treadmill — 79 books
first published 1997 added 24 Sep 2017
the observed tendency for humans to quickly return to a stable level of happiness despite positive or negative life changes.
+73
backpropagation — 67 books
first published 1997 added 13 Apr 2021
an algorithm used in machine learning to adjust the weights of artificial neural networks
+61
Parents Music Resource Center — 5 books
first published 1997 added 31 Dec 2021
defunct American committee
lumpers and splitters — 19 books
first published 1997 added 13 Nov 2025
+13