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2,618 concepts

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paper trading — 50 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
profit maximization — 253 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
process to determine the highest profits for a firm
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.
yield management — 37 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
Steve Wynn — 60 books
first published 1 Jun 1989 added 17 Aug 2024
imperial preference — 51 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
system of reciprocally-enacted tariffs or free trade agreements
open economy — 168 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
economy favoring cross-border investment and commerce
spinning jenny — 95 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
Bretton Woods — 392 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
University of East Anglia — 81 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
university in Norwich, England
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
Potemkin village — 88 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is
Mission District — 114 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 26 Jun 2024
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA
"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations" — 52 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 21 Nov 2021
Suez crisis 1956 — 174 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 28 Oct 2021
John Markoff — 261 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 10 Feb 2017
Saturday Night Live — 290 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
American late-night live television sketch comedy show
carbon offset — 162 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
Clifford Stoll — 20 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 30 Jul 2024
American astronomer
Paul Graham — 123 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert — 81 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
Skype — 798 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
sustainable-tourism — 114 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.
Benoit Mandelbrot — 98 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
a mathematician known for his work on fractals
interest rate swap — 125 books
first published 1989
linear interest rate derivative involving exchange of interest rates between two parties
London Interbank Offered Rate — 93 books
first published 1989
London Inter-bank Offered Rate
El Camino Real — 66 books
first published 1989
The Predators' Ball — 32 books
first published 1989
book by Connie Bruck
Apollo 13 — 150 books
first published 1989 added 5 Jun 2022
a 1970 NASA mission that suffered a critical failure but returned safely to Earth
mortgage tax deduction — 96 books
first published 1989
Ted Sorensen — 23 books
first published 1989 added 8 May 2023
lunar-orbit rendezvous — 24 books
first published 1989 added 7 Jan 2025
John Meriwether — 59 books
first published 1989 added 24 Apr 2017
American financier
The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray — 72 books
first published 1989 added 23 Jan 2017
Irwin Jacobs — 12 books
first published 1989 added 21 Feb 2017
psychological pricing — 14 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
theory that certain prices have a psychological impact
Peter Singer: altruism — 64 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
Wilhelm Olbers — 6 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
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
Gary Taubes — 38 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
an American journalist and author who focuses on scientific topics, particularly those related to nutrition and health
Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis — 7 books
first published 30 Jun 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
cosmological constant — 48 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
John Harrison: Longitude — 66 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
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
cosmic microwave background — 45 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
deep time — 95 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 24 Aug 2024
mandelbrot fractal — 103 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
Albert Michelson — 36 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist, speed of light measurement
Karl Jansky — 8 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist and radio engineer
Richard Feynman — 316 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 30 Dec 2016
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
belling the cat — 14 books
first published 31 May 1988 added 2 Nov 2021
a fable about the impracticality of a plan that requires great risk
data acquisition — 87 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
sum of methods of simultaneous or sequential time measurement and counting for measurable or quantifiable data and groups of contiguous data
Shoshana Zuboff — 89 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 27 Apr 2017
American sociologist, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author
social web — 111 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites
blue-collar work — 80 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
demand response — 58 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
techniques used to prevent power networks from being overwhelmed
Panopticon Jeremy Bentham — 96 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 28 Apr 2018
optical character recognition — 79 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
the technology used to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents or PDF files, into editable and searchable data
future of work — 226 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
study of potential changes to work
computer vision — 202 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
Jacques de Vaucanson — 26 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
French inventor of mechanical automata
guest worker program — 33 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
program where foreign workers temporarily reside and work in a host country
telepresence — 93 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
warehouse automation — 59 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 12 Feb 2022
Whole Earth Review — 45 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
Computer Numeric Control — 22 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 21 Feb 2017
factory automation — 47 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game design — 264 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
robot derives from the Czech word robota Czech, meaning slave — 8 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
Stephen Hawking — 369 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
white picket fence — 122 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 10 Feb 2017
white flight — 174 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
solo project of Justin Roelofs
false flag — 98 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 4 Jun 2023
airport security — 293 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
procedures to protect passengers, staff, and planes
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 — 28 books
first published 1988 added 15 Nov 2021
1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
Live Aid — 50 books
first published 1988 added 12 Feb 2017
a benefit concert held in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
citizen journalism — 128 books
first published 1988
journalism genre
facts on the ground — 181 books
first published 1988
life extension — 148 books
first published 1988
scientific and medical research aimed at extending the human lifespan
virtual gold — 21 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 11 Oct 2023
disinformation campaign — 159 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 8 Nov 2023
Bolshevik threat — 12 books
first published 11 Sep 1987
Zeno's paradox — 5 books
first published 6 Jul 1987
no-fly zone — 89 books
first published 6 Jul 1987 added 6 Apr 2022
territory where aircraft aren't allowed to fly over
Exxon Valdez — 127 books
first published 6 Jul 1987
an oil tanker that spilled 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, causing one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history
space junk — 49 books
first published 1 Jun 1987 added 22 Dec 2022
collection of defunct objects in orbit
mutually assured destruction — 226 books
first published 1 Jun 1987
a military strategy and national security policy where the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both
endowment effect — 89 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
Jones Act — 26 books
first published 15 Jan 1987 added 15 Oct 2020
rent-seeking — 253 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
attempt to obtain economic rent
income per capita — 163 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
manufacturing employment — 152 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
total factor productivity — 83 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
a measure of the efficiency with which inputs are transformed into outputs in an economy, often seen as an indicator of technological progress.
DeepMind — 164 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 5 Aug 2023
artificial intelligence company owned by Google
price mechanism — 159 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
concept in economics
knowledge worker — 257 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
worker whose main capital is knowledge
supply-chain management — 147 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
the management of the flow of goods and services, involving the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods
An Inconvenient Truth — 137 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 6 Mar 2022
2006 film by Davis Guggenheim