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2,557 concepts

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rolodex — 247 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
coherent worldview — 22 books
first published 14 Oct 1991 added 3 Apr 2018
unorthodox policies — 28 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
walking around money — 15 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
Sinatra Doctrine — 15 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
Soviet foreign policy of allowing neighboring Warsaw Pact states to determine their own internal affairs
liberal capitalism — 116 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 12 Feb 2017
liberal bias — 41 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 13 Apr 2024
Post-Keynesian economics — 46 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 11 Nov 2020
school of economic thought
scientific worldview — 42 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 3 Apr 2018
scientific model of the world
informal economy — 333 books
first published 16 Sep 1991
economic activity unregulated by government
McJob — 21 books
first published 15 Mar 1991 added 15 Oct 2020
pejorative term
kremlinology — 39 books
first published 2 Jan 1991
study and analysis of the politics and policies of the Soviet Union (while the term Sovietology means the study of politics and policies of both the Soviet Union and former communist states more generally)
Columbian Exchange — 47 books
first published 2 Jan 1991
the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World and the Old World following Columbus's voyages
American chestnut — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1991 added 26 Jun 2024
species of plant
Farzad Bazoft — 6 books
first published 1991 added 26 Feb 2017
Iranian-born journalist & double spy
Kickstarter — 910 books
first published 1991
invention of the wheel — 55 books
first published 15 Dec 1990
Umberto Eco — 69 books
first published 15 Dec 1990 added 24 Dec 2023
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Gerolamo Cardano — 15 books
first published 15 Dec 1990
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
principal–agent problem — 84 books
first published 29 Nov 1990
conflict of interest when one agent makes decisions on another's behalf
rational choice theory — 52 books
first published 29 Nov 1990 added 8 Oct 2023
hallucination problem — 11 books
first published 15 Sep 1990 added 4 Oct 2023
generation ship — 15 books
first published 15 Sep 1990 added 20 Jun 2024
interstellar spacecraft able to accommodate multiple generations of passengers
clockwatching — 26 books
first published 31 Aug 1990
General Ludd — 13 books
first published 31 Aug 1990 added 8 Jan 2024
green capitalism — 31 books
first published 30 Apr 1990 added 14 Jan 2024
Fall of the Berlin Wall — 423 books
first published 2 Jan 1990
the dismantling of the wall that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, which symbolized the end of the Cold War and paved the way for German reunification.
Prenzlauer Berg — 32 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 added 17 May 2023
Geert Wilders — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 added 23 Nov 2023
right-wing Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures — 21 books
first published 2 Jan 1990
Martin Wolf — 173 books
first published 2 Jan 1990
Gordon Gekko — 145 books
first published 1990
the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Dutch auction — 37 books
first published 1990 added 22 Apr 2022
an auction in which the item price is lowered until a bidder accepts the current price
David Attenborough — 96 books
first published 1990
index arbitrage — 33 books
first published 1990
A type of arbitrage
the payments system — 99 books
first published 1990
financial deregulation — 187 books
first published 1990
Big bang: deregulation of the City of London — 123 books
first published 1990
the sudden deregulation of financial markets in London in 1986
Rubik’s Cube — 146 books
first published 1990 added 12 Feb 2017
a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor Ernő Rubik, becoming an international sensation.
too big to fail — 454 books
first published 1990
prediction markets — 149 books
first published 1990
ultimatum game — 81 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
price anchoring — 55 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
use of the anchoring effect in making a price seem more acceptable to potential buyers
market fundamentalism — 194 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
strong belief in the ability of unregulated laissez-faire or free market policies to solve most economic and social problems
framing effect — 62 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
cognitive bias — 122 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment due to subjective perception of reality
loss aversion — 174 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
Black Swan — 197 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
a term used to describe rare, unpredictable events with severe consequences
Tracy Kidder — 36 books
first published 14 Jun 1989 added 30 Jul 2024
profit maximization — 247 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
process to determine the highest profits for a firm
yield management — 37 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
Steve Wynn — 57 books
first published 1 Jun 1989 added 17 Aug 2024
paper trading — 50 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
Oscar Wyatt — 9 books
first published 1 Jun 1989 added 23 Jun 2021
an American businessman convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to the UN's Oil-for-Food Programme.
spinning jenny — 95 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
Bretton Woods — 387 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
gunboat diplomacy — 63 books
first published 15 Jan 1989 added 12 Jan 2024
pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power
University of East Anglia — 80 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
university in Norwich, England
imperial preference — 51 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
system of reciprocally-enacted tariffs or free trade agreements
Potemkin village — 87 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is
open economy — 168 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
economy favoring cross-border investment and commerce
Benoit Mandelbrot — 98 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
a mathematician known for his work on fractals
Mission District — 113 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 26 Jun 2024
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA
Saturday Night Live — 283 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
American late-night live television sketch comedy show
"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations" — 51 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 21 Nov 2021
Paul Graham — 121 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
Suez crisis 1956 — 171 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 28 Oct 2021
Skype — 782 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
Clifford Stoll — 20 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 30 Jul 2024
American astronomer
carbon offset — 156 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 7 Oct 2023
reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere
John Markoff — 258 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 10 Feb 2017
sustainable-tourism — 106 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
a form of tourism that aims to have a low impact on the environment and local culture while helping to generate income and employment.
Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert — 79 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
John Meriwether — 59 books
first published 1989 added 24 Apr 2017
American financier
The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray — 69 books
first published 1989 added 23 Jan 2017
El Camino Real — 64 books
first published 1989
Ted Sorensen — 23 books
first published 1989 added 8 May 2023
London Interbank Offered Rate — 93 books
first published 1989
London Inter-bank Offered Rate
Irwin Jacobs — 12 books
first published 1989 added 21 Feb 2017
The Predators' Ball — 30 books
first published 1989
book by Connie Bruck
interest rate swap — 125 books
first published 1989
linear interest rate derivative involving exchange of interest rates between two parties
mortgage tax deduction — 95 books
first published 1989
Apollo 13 — 148 books
first published 1989 added 5 Jun 2022
a 1970 NASA mission that suffered a critical failure but returned safely to Earth
psychological pricing — 13 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
theory that certain prices have a psychological impact
Peter Singer: altruism — 61 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
cosmological constant — 48 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
Gary Taubes — 37 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
an American journalist and author who focuses on scientific topics, particularly those related to nutrition and health
deep time — 93 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 24 Aug 2024
Murray Gell-Mann — 78 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 29 Dec 2016
an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles
Albert Michelson — 35 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist, speed of light measurement
Richard Feynman — 312 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 30 Dec 2016
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
anthropic principle — 54 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it
Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis — 7 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
Wilhelm Olbers — 6 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
mandelbrot fractal — 103 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
retrograde motion — 18 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
the apparent backward motion of a planet as observed from Earth
cosmic abundance — 10 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
John Harrison: Longitude — 65 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
cosmic microwave background — 45 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
Karl Jansky — 8 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist and radio engineer