mittelstand
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52 books
first published
1995
a term used in the German-speaking world to describe small and medium-sized enterprises that form the backbone of the German economy
GDP growth
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499 books
first published
1995
added 16 Sep 2024
revenue passenger mile
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5 books
first published
1995
added 27 Oct 2021
unit for revenue passenger transport work defined as the number of persons in a vehicle multiplied by kilometers transported
food cooperative
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32 books
first published
28 Dec 1994
added 12 Nov 2023
food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative
post-Fordism
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28 books
first published
28 Dec 1994
added 10 Jan 2022
system of economic production, consumption, and associated socio-economic phenomena in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century
crop rotation
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171 books
first published
28 Dec 1994
added 6 Dec 2023
practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons
Richard Florida
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143 books
first published
28 Dec 1994
American urban studies theorist
Boris Johnson
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264 books
first published
1 Dec 1994
added 27 Aug 2017
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
electricity market
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80 books
first published
1 Dec 1994
added 9 Dec 2022
for trading electrical power
Neil Kinnock
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71 books
first published
1 Dec 1994
added 4 Mar 2017
a British Labour Party politician who served as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992
Washington Consensus
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201 books
first published
1 Dec 1994
broad set of economic policies commonly prescribed by institutions based in Washington D.C. such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank
Edward Snowden
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235 books
first published
1 Dec 1994
a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified information about global surveillance programs run by American and British spy agencies.
fake news
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432 books
first published
1 Dec 1994
added 26 Jan 2023
false or misleading information presented as news
Leo Hollis
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30 books
first published
1 Dec 1994
added 29 Sep 2022
British writer
biofilm
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35 books
first published
31 Oct 1994
added 28 Jan 2017
group of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and, often, to a surface
Edward Jenner
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63 books
first published
31 Oct 1994
added 26 Nov 2021
1749-1823 English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
global macro
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62 books
first published
31 Oct 1994
added 1 Nov 2021
A type of investment strategy
transfer pricing
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72 books
first published
31 Oct 1994
pricing of goods, services, or intellectual property transferred within an organisation, especially cross-border, for tax optimization
megacity
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283 books
first published
31 Oct 1994
a very large city, typically with a population exceeding 10 million people.
Steve Ballmer
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115 books
first published
19 Sep 1994
American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft
thinkpad
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34 books
first published
19 Sep 1994
business computers and tablets series by Lenovo
Gary Kildall
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22 books
first published
19 Sep 1994
added 23 Nov 2021
American computer scientist and entrepreneur
ROLM
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9 books
first published
19 Sep 1994
added 13 Feb 2022
Russian science society
six sigma
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90 books
first published
19 Sep 1994
a set of management techniques aimed at improving business processes by reducing defects
sceptred isle
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19 books
first published
29 May 1994
added 20 Feb 2017
flying shuttle
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64 books
first published
14 May 1994
added 1 Oct 2023
Mother of all demos
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43 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
computer demonstration by Douglas Engelbart
Bill Atkinson
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32 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 19 Oct 2020
Pepsi Challenge
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24 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 27 May 2022
a marketing campaign by PepsiCo where participants do a blind taste test comparing Pepsi and Coca-Cola
reality distortion field
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69 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 5 Oct 2023
a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981 to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' ability to persuade himself and others to believe almost anything
Computer Lib
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35 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 23 Aug 2023
General Magic
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38 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 10 Jul 2023
Marc Porat
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9 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 28 Oct 2023
American businessman
Vannevar Bush
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65 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890-1974)
Douglas Engelbart
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107 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
added 5 Mar 2017
American engineer and inventor
Dynabook
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30 books
first published
2 Feb 1994
uptick rule
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23 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
added 21 Apr 2022
trading restriction that states that short selling a stock is only allowed on an uptick
commodity trading advisor
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30 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
individual or organization who is retained by a fund or individual client to provide advice and services related to trading in futures contracts, commodity options and/or swaps
Ralph Nelson Elliott
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11 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
added 17 Jan 2017
American accountant (1871-1948)
proprietary trading
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192 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
added 6 Aug 2022
practice of trading financial instruments using a firm's own money
the map is not the territory
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36 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
added 17 Jan 2017
a phrase emphasizing that models or representations of reality are not the same as the reality they represent
Sharpe ratio
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92 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
measure of an investment's risk premium
market clearing
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108 books
first published
28 Jan 1994
an economic term for the situation where supply equals demand, typically resulting in an equilibrium price.
precariat
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98 books
first published
2 Jan 1994
social class formed by people suffering from precarity
Occupy movement
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214 books
first published
2 Jan 1994
international branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests against social and economic inequality around the world
corporate personhood
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39 books
first published
2 Jan 1994
notion that corporations can have some legal rights, responsibilities and accountability
Asian financial crisis
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209 books
first published
1994
a financial crisis that started in 1997, affecting various Asian economies by causing currency devaluations and financial collapse.
leapfrogging
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122 books
first published
1994
added 8 Oct 2023
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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23 books
first published
1994
added 19 Feb 2017
principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition
operation paperclip
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30 books
first published
1994
a secret United States intelligence program that recruited and employed German scientists, including former Nazis, after World War II
Loebner Prize
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32 books
first published
1994
annual competition in artificial intelligence
contact tracing
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63 books
first published
1994
added 14 Aug 2023
process of finding and identifying people in close contact with someone who is infected with a transmissible pathogen