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2,703 concepts

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missing middle — 38 books
first published 1995 added 19 Jan 2024
centralized clearinghouse — 49 books
first published 1995
Dava Sobel — 57 books
first published 1995
American writer
GDP growth — 519 books
first published 1995 added 16 Sep 2024
mittelstand — 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
joint-stock limited liability company — 43 books
first published 1995
Network effects — 410 books
first published 1995
cross-subsidies — 47 books
first published 1995
food cooperative — 36 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 12 Nov 2023
food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative
pink-collar — 48 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
employer provided health coverage — 34 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
low skilled workers — 268 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
crop rotation — 179 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
post-Fordism — 30 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
Erik Brynjolfsson — 172 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
American academic
closing of the frontier — 15 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 1 Apr 2025
Richard Florida — 146 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
American urban studies theorist
karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi — 26 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 29 Apr 2022
cashless society — 75 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
John Maynard Keynes: technological unemployment — 73 books
first published 28 Dec 1994
compensation consultant — 37 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 17 Jun 2021
Kaizen: continuous improvement — 36 books
first published 28 Dec 1994 added 5 Oct 2023
Washington Consensus — 210 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
electricity market — 85 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 9 Dec 2022
for trading electrical power
Neil Kinnock — 73 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
fake news — 462 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 26 Jan 2023
false or misleading information presented as news
Boris Johnson — 279 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 27 Aug 2017
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
Edward Snowden — 249 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.
Leo Hollis — 31 books
first published 1 Dec 1994 added 29 Sep 2022
British writer
correlation does not imply causation — 283 books
first published 31 Oct 1994
invention of air conditioning — 8 books
first published 31 Oct 1994
discovery of penicillin — 50 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 30 Dec 2016
biofilm — 36 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
global macro — 63 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 1 Nov 2021
A type of investment strategy
Anthony Fauci — 65 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 31 Aug 2025
Edward Jenner — 68 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 26 Nov 2021
1749-1823 English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
transfer pricing — 74 books
first published 31 Oct 1994
pricing of goods, services, or intellectual property transferred within an organisation, especially cross-border, for tax optimization
megacity — 303 books
first published 31 Oct 1994
a very large city, typically with a population exceeding 10 million people.
mass incarceration — 149 books
first published 31 Oct 1994 added 26 Feb 2017
six sigma — 92 books
first published 19 Sep 1994
a set of management techniques aimed at improving business processes by reducing defects
Kleiner Perkins — 165 books
first published 19 Sep 1994 added 20 Mar 2025
American venture capital firm
Fairchild Semiconductor — 124 books
first published 19 Sep 1994 added 13 Feb 2022
American company
thinkpad — 36 books
first published 19 Sep 1994
business computers and tablets series by Lenovo
Gary Kildall — 22 books
first published 19 Sep 1994 added 23 Nov 2021
American computer scientist and entrepreneur
ROLM — 9 books
first published 19 Sep 1994 added 13 Feb 2022
Russian science society
Steve Ballmer — 121 books
first published 19 Sep 1994
American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft
lone genius — 88 books
first published 29 May 1994
sceptred isle — 19 books
first published 29 May 1994 added 20 Feb 2017
flying shuttle — 64 books
first published 14 May 1994 added 1 Oct 2023
John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren — 114 books
first published 14 May 1994
James Hargreaves — 45 books
first published 14 May 1994
reality distortion field — 75 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
The Home Computer Revolution — 11 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 30 Aug 2023
Mother of all demos — 45 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
computer demonstration by Douglas Engelbart
information trail — 12 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
Vannevar Bush — 67 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890-1974)
General Magic — 40 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 10 Jul 2023
Computer Lib — 35 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 23 Aug 2023
Marc Porat — 9 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 28 Oct 2023
American businessman
Productivity paradox — 61 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
Bill Atkinson — 33 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 19 Oct 2020
QWERTY keyboard — 98 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
Pepsi Challenge — 27 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
Dynabook — 32 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
Ted Nelson — 77 books
first published 2 Feb 1994
Douglas Engelbart — 111 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 5 Mar 2017
American engineer and inventor
Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? — 17 books
first published 2 Feb 1994 added 5 Aug 2023
Louis Bachelier — 42 books
first published 28 Jan 1994
mathematician
proprietary trading — 194 books
first published 28 Jan 1994 added 6 Aug 2022
practice of trading financial instruments using a firm's own money
Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager — 34 books
first published 28 Jan 1994 added 1 Mar 2023
the map is not the territory — 40 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
Elliott wave — 36 books
first published 28 Jan 1994
commodity trading advisor — 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
uptick rule — 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
Sharpe ratio — 94 books
first published 28 Jan 1994
measure of an investment's risk premium
butterfly effect — 112 books
first published 28 Jan 1994
computerized trading — 62 books
first published 28 Jan 1994 added 21 Feb 2017
market clearing — 111 books
first published 28 Jan 1994
an economic term for the situation where supply equals demand, typically resulting in an equilibrium price.
Ralph Nelson Elliott — 11 books
first published 28 Jan 1994 added 17 Jan 2017
American accountant (1871-1948)
implied volatility — 78 books
first published 28 Jan 1994
financial mathematical measure
Nate Silver — 120 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
precariat — 101 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
social class formed by people suffering from precarity
Occupy movement — 223 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
international branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests against social and economic inequality around the world
Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
corporate personhood — 40 books
first published 2 Jan 1994
notion that corporations can have some legal rights, responsibilities and accountability
Kwajalein Atoll — 21 books
first published 2 Jan 1994 added 31 May 2023
operation paperclip — 32 books
first published 1994
a secret United States intelligence program that recruited and employed German scientists, including former Nazis, after World War II
elephant in my pajamas — 4 books
first published 1994 added 7 Jan 2017
the death of distance — 54 books
first published 1994 added 4 Dec 2023
invention of the telephone — 49 books
first published 1994
leapfrogging — 125 books
first published 1994 added 8 Oct 2023
rising living standards — 129 books
first published 1994
contingency sample — 11 books
first published 1994 added 20 Dec 2024
Guns, Germs, and Steel — 149 books
first published 1994 added 7 Apr 2025
contact tracing — 66 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
Human Development Index — 143 books
first published 1994 added 6 Jan 2025
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis — 23 books
first published 1994 added 19 Feb 2017
principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition
Tim Berners-Lee — 287 books
first published 1994 added 15 Feb 2025
talking drums — 10 books
first published 1994
unemployed young men — 36 books
first published 1994