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anti-globalists — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 3 Apr 2018
+24
Melvin Kranzberg — 25 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 27 Feb 2024
American historian
+19
off-the-grid — 345 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 26 Oct 2022
+339
post scarcity — 48 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
after the elimination of scarcity; in a time when society has sufficient resources
+42
Naomi Klein — 189 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
Canadian author and activist
person
+183
garden city movement — 36 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+30
rewilding — 78 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 12 Mar 2023
conservation aimed at restoring natural processes and reintroducing apex predators and keystone species
+72
Erdős number — 15 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+9
telerobotics — 26 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
area of robotics concerned with the control of semi-autonomous robots from a distance
+20
hive mind — 155 books
first published 2 Jan 1992
+149
human-factors engineering — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 4 Dec 2022
+8
Zapatista — 87 books
first published 2 Jan 1992 added 1 Dec 2023
+81
Sand Hill Road — 145 books
first published 1992
a road in Menlo Park, California, known for its concentration of venture capital firms
+139
price anchoring — 57 books
first published 1992
use of the anchoring effect in making a price seem more acceptable to potential buyers
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sparse data — 52 books
first published 1992 added 20 Jun 2022
+46
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
Doomsday Book — 16 books
first published 1992
+10
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
Pepto Bismol — 50 books
first published 1992 added 10 Dec 2017
+44
law of one price — 38 books
first published 1992
economic theory
+32
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
Cape to Cairo — 28 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
Wikimedia disambiguation page
+22
transatlantic slave trade — 157 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
the forced transportation of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas, from the 16th to the 19th century.
+151
Scramble for Africa — 111 books
first published 19 Nov 1991
+105
ships of the desert — 11 books
first published 19 Nov 1991 added 25 Oct 2025
+5
Donald Davies — 36 books
first published 19 Oct 1991 added 5 Mar 2017 person
+30
deal flow — 62 books
first published 14 Oct 1991 added 5 Mar 2023
+56
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
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
walking around money — 16 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
+10
unorthodox policies — 27 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
+21
discounted cash flows — 85 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
+79
rolodex — 265 books
first published 14 Oct 1991
+259
liberal bias — 44 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 13 Apr 2024
+38
scientific worldview — 35 books
first published 16 Sep 1991 added 3 Apr 2018
scientific model of the world
+29
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
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
informal economy — 362 books
first published 16 Sep 1991
economic activity unregulated by government
+356
McJob — 22 books
first published 15 Mar 1991 added 15 Oct 2020
pejorative term
+16
Columbian Exchange — 50 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
+44
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
American chestnut — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1991 added 26 Jun 2024
species of plant
+17
Pablo Escobar — 76 books
first published 1991 added 31 Mar 2025 person
+70
Farzad Bazoft — 6 books
first published 1991 added 26 Feb 2017
Iranian-born journalist & double spy
person
Umberto Eco — 74 books
first published 15 Dec 1990 added 24 Dec 2023
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
+68
Gerolamo Cardano — 17 books
first published 15 Dec 1990
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
+11
invention of the wheel — 58 books
first published 15 Dec 1990
+52
principal–agent problem — 86 books
first published 29 Nov 1990
conflict of interest when one agent makes decisions on another's behalf
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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
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures — 22 books
first published 2 Jan 1990
+16
Prenzlauer Berg — 33 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 added 17 May 2023
+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
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
Martin Wolf — 178 books
first published 2 Jan 1990 person
+172
David Attenborough — 105 books
first published 1990
+99
financial deregulation — 193 books
first published 1990
+187
too big to fail — 472 books
first published 1990
+466
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
the payments system — 102 books
first published 1990
+96
Big bang: deregulation of the City of London — 127 books
first published 1990
the sudden deregulation of financial markets in London in 1986
+121
index arbitrage — 34 books
first published 1990
A type of arbitrage
+28
Limerence — 11 books
first published 1990 added 11 Mar 2026
+5
prediction markets — 156 books
first published 1990
+150
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
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
Boycotts of Israel — 46 books
first published 1990
political tactic of avoiding economic, political and cultural ties with the State of Israel
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loss aversion — 183 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
+177
framing effect — 63 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
+57
ultimatum game — 83 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
+77
known unknowns — 115 books
first published 3 Oct 1989 added 8 Dec 2024
+109
Black Swan — 203 books
first published 3 Oct 1989
a term used to describe rare, unpredictable events with severe consequences
+197
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
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
Missouri Compromise — 27 books
first published 14 Jun 1989 added 18 Feb 2025
+21
paper trading — 51 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
+45
Steve Wynn — 59 books
first published 1 Jun 1989 added 17 Aug 2024
+53
Paul Lévy — 23 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
+17
yield management — 38 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
+32
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
profit maximization — 297 books
first published 1 Jun 1989
process to determine the highest profits for a firm
+291
Bretton Woods — 404 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
+398
spinning jenny — 103 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
+97
gunboat diplomacy — 67 books
first published 15 Jan 1989 added 12 Jan 2024
pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power
+61
Potemkin village — 93 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is
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imperial preference — 53 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
system of reciprocally-enacted tariffs or free trade agreements
+47
University of East Anglia — 86 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
university in Norwich, England
+80
open economy — 178 books
first published 15 Jan 1989
economy favoring cross-border investment and commerce
+172
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
Mission District — 124 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 26 Jun 2024
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA
+118
Saturday Night Live — 309 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
American late-night live television sketch comedy show
+303
Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert — 84 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
+78
carbon offset — 173 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
+167
John Markoff — 264 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 10 Feb 2017 person
+258
Clifford Stoll — 21 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 30 Jul 2024
American astronomer
person
+15
sustainable-tourism — 121 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.
+115