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2,734 concepts

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hive mind — 155 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+149
rewilding — 81 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Mar 2023
conservation aimed at restoring natural processes and reintroducing apex predators and keystone species
+75
Erdős number — 15 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+9
glass ceiling — 327 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+321
off grid — 137 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Feb 2017
+131
reversible computing — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
model of computing
+17
Burning Man — 220 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+214
NP-complete — 36 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+30
telerobotics — 26 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
area of robotics concerned with the control of semi-autonomous robots from a distance
+20
Zapatista — 87 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 1 Dec 2023
+81
Naomi Klein — 190 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Canadian author and activist
person
+184
anti-globalists — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2018
+24
human-factors engineering — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
+8
Day of the Dead — 77 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 2 Nov 2021
+71
AltaVista — 118 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+112
price anchoring — 58 books
first published 1992
use of the anchoring effect in making a price seem more acceptable to potential buyers
+52
currency peg — 69 books
first published 1992
type of exchange rate regime where a currency's value is fixed against the value of another single currency
+63
Sand Hill Road — 146 books
first published 1992
a road in Menlo Park, California, known for its concentration of venture capital firms
+140
sparse data — 52 books
first published 1992 added 20 Jun 2022
+46
law of one price — 39 books
first published 1992
economic theory
+33
Richard Feynman: Challenger O-ring — 33 books
first published 1992
Physicist Richard Feynman was part of the Rogers Commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, famously demonstrating the O-ring material's vulnerability to cold.
+27
Doomsday Book — 17 books
first published 1992
+11
Pepto Bismol — 50 books
first published 1992 added 10 Dec 2017
+44
Higgs boson — 109 books
first published 1992 added 9 Jul 2022
elementary particle transmitting the Higgs field giving particles mass
+103
systematic bias — 55 books
first published 1992 added 23 May 2023
+49
Cape to Cairo — 28 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
Wikimedia disambiguation page
+22
ships of the desert — 11 books
first published 19 Nov 1991 added 25 Oct 2025
+5
Scramble for Africa — 113 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
+107
transatlantic slave trade — 159 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
the forced transportation of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas, from the 16th to the 19th century.
+153
Donald Davies — 36 books
first published 19 Oct 1991 added 5 Mar 2017 person
+30
discounted cash flows — 85 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
+79
walking around money — 16 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
+10
Sinatra Doctrine — 15 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
Soviet foreign policy of allowing neighboring Warsaw Pact states to determine their own internal affairs
+9
rolodex — 265 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
+259
unorthodox policies — 27 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
+21
deal flow — 62 books
first published 14 Oct 1991 added 5 Mar 2023
+56
first-past-the-post — 72 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
electoral system in which voters indicate the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins
+66
scientific worldview — 35 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 3 Apr 2018
scientific model of the world
+29
informal economy — 363 books
first published 16 Sep 1991
economic activity unregulated by government
+357
circulating library — 28 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 22 Dec 2024
for-profit library that lends books to the public for a fee
+22
liberal bias — 44 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 13 Apr 2024
+38
Post-Keynesian economics — 47 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 11 Nov 2020
school of economic thought
+41
liberal capitalism — 124 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 12 Feb 2017 capitalism
+118
McJob — 22 books
first published 15 Mar 1991 added 15 Oct 2020
pejorative term
+16
American chestnut — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1991 added 26 Jun 2024
species of plant
+17
Columbian Exchange — 51 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
+45
kremlinology — 45 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)
+39
Farzad Bazoft — 6 books
first published 1991 added 26 Feb 2017
Iranian-born journalist & double spy
person
Pablo Escobar — 76 books
first published 1991 added 31 Mar 2025 person
+70
Umberto Eco — 74 books
first published 15 Dec 1990 added 24 Dec 2023
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
+68
invention of the wheel — 59 books
first published 15 Dec 1990
+53
Gerolamo Cardano — 17 books
first published 15 Dec 1990
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
+11
principal–agent problem — 86 books
first published 29 Nov 1990
conflict of interest when one agent makes decisions on another's behalf
+80
rational choice theory — 55 books
first published 29 Nov 1990 added 8 Oct 2023
+49
generation ship — 18 books
first published 15 Sep 1990 added 20 Jun 2024
interstellar spacecraft able to accommodate multiple generations of passengers
+12
General Ludd — 17 books
first published 31 Aug 1990 added 8 Jan 2024
+11
green capitalism — 33 books
first published 30 Apr 1990 added 14 Jan 2024 capitalism
+27
Geert Wilders — 60 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 added 23 Nov 2023
right-wing Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom
+54
Martin Wolf — 178 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 person
+172
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures — 22 books
first published 2 Jan 1990
+16
Fall of the Berlin Wall — 445 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.
event
+439
Prenzlauer Berg — 33 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 added 17 May 2023
+27
Boycotts of Israel — 46 books
first published 1990
political tactic of avoiding economic, political and cultural ties with the State of Israel
+40
Dutch auction — 38 books
first published 1990 added 22 Apr 2022
an auction in which the item price is lowered until a bidder accepts the current price
+32
prediction markets — 156 books
first published 1990
+150
the payments system — 102 books
first published 1990
+96
David Attenborough — 107 books
first published 1990
+101
Rubik’s Cube — 167 books
first published 1990 added 12 Feb 2017
a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor Ernő Rubik, becoming an international sensation.
+161
Gordon Gekko — 150 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
+144
Limerence — 11 books
first published 1990 added 11 Mar 2026
+5
too big to fail — 473 books
first published 1990
+467
financial deregulation — 194 books
first published 1990
+188
index arbitrage — 34 books
first published 1990
A type of arbitrage
+28
Big bang: deregulation of the City of London — 127 books
first published 1990
the sudden deregulation of financial markets in London in 1986
+121
ultimatum game — 83 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
+77
cognitive bias — 131 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment due to subjective perception of reality
+125
known unknowns — 115 books
first published 3 Oct 1989 added 8 Dec 2024
+109
framing effect — 63 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
+57
loss aversion — 183 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
+177
market fundamentalism — 207 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
+201
Black Swan — 204 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
a term used to describe rare, unpredictable events with severe consequences
+198
Missouri Compromise — 27 books
first published 14 Jun 1989 added 18 Feb 2025
+21
profit maximization — 298 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
process to determine the highest profits for a firm
+292
paper trading — 51 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
+45
yield management — 38 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
+32
Steve Wynn — 59 books
first published 1 Jun 1989 added 17 Aug 2024
+53
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.
+3
Paul Lévy — 23 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
+17
University of East Anglia — 87 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
university in Norwich, England
+81
spinning jenny — 103 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
+97
Bretton Woods — 406 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
+400
open economy — 180 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
economy favoring cross-border investment and commerce
+174
Potemkin village — 94 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is
+88
imperial preference — 53 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
system of reciprocally-enacted tariffs or free trade agreements
+47
gunboat diplomacy — 68 books
first published 15 Jan 1989 added 12 Jan 2024
pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power
+62
"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations" — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 21 Nov 2021
+47
Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert — 84 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
+78
Skype — 821 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 tech
+815
Saturday Night Live — 309 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
American late-night live television sketch comedy show
+303
Thomas Bayes — 92 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 21 Feb 2017
an 18th-century statistician and Presbyterian minister best known for formulating Bayes' theorem, which is fundamental to probability theory.
person
+86