Ada Lovelace
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93 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
English mathematician, work on Analytical Engine
LNG terminal
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12 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
facility for managing the export and/or import of liquefied natural gas
Neal Stephenson
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124 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
added 4 Mar 2023
American science fiction writer
The Wisdom of Crowds
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170 books
first published
1984
a book by James Surowiecki that explores the idea that large groups of people are often smarter than the smartest individuals within them when it comes to problem-solving.
Norman Macrae
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20 books
first published
1984
added 3 Nov 2017
British economist and journalist (1923–2010)
the built environment
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203 books
first published
1984
the human-made spaces in which people live, work, and interact, including buildings, parks, and transportation systems.
iterative process
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205 books
first published
1984
numerical method in which the n-th approximation of the solution is obtained on the basis on the (n-1) previous approximations
wikimedia commons
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123 books
first published
1984
online repository of free-use image, sound, and other media files; part of the Wikimedia ecosystem
Richard Stallman
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106 books
first published
1984
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Andrew Wiles
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43 books
first published
1984
British mathematician; (born 1953)
late capitalism
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128 books
first published
1 Nov 1983
Ideas concerning the potential end of capitalism
airline deregulation
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49 books
first published
1 Nov 1983
removal of government controls on airline industry
Ayatollah Khomeini
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182 books
first published
24 Feb 1983
an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader who led the 1979 Iranian Revolution and became the country's Supreme Leader.
the long tail
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221 books
first published
24 Feb 1983
added 3 Oct 2023
Milgram experiment
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76 books
first published
1983
series of social psychology experiments, studying obedience to authority figures
school choice
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81 books
first published
1983
arrangements giving parents the facility to choose schools for their children
Peter Pan Syndrome
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12 books
first published
1982
added 27 Oct 2021
a term referring to adults who refuse to grow up and take on responsibilities, instead maintaining childlike attitudes and behaviours.
Recombinant DNA
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88 books
first published
1982
added 16 Nov 2021
DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods
p-value
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111 books
first published
1982
a statistic used in hypothesis testing to indicate the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis
Tragedy of the Commons
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233 books
first published
1982
added 25 Oct 2021
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
Douglas Hofstadter
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86 books
first published
1982
an American professor known for his work on consciousness, artificial intelligence, and the book 'Gödel, Escher, Bach'
assortative mating
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69 books
first published
1982
added 11 Aug 2017
the tendency of individuals to mate with those who have similar traits
deindustrialization
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365 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
process of reduction of industrial activity
labor-force participation
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163 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 15 Jan 2017
the percentage of working-age people who are either employed or actively seeking work
Jeff Bezos
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562 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
power law
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231 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 28 Apr 2022
Skinner box
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48 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 24 Oct 2022
accelerated depreciation
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33 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 26 Oct 2021
accounting method for faster asset cost write-off
Robert Solow
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173 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 4 Feb 2018
American economist
clean tech
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91 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
US scientific journal
Solyndra
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44 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 21 Sep 2022
a solar panel manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy, controversial for receiving government loans
Norman Borlaug
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67 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 23 Jan 2024
paradox of thrift
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45 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
economic paradox that an increase in autonomous saving decreases aggregate demand and thus gross output, which will in turn lower total saving
moving assembly line
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56 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 30 Oct 2023
manufacturing technology where an unfinished product is moved from workstation to workstation where work steps are performed or parts are added in sequence until the product is complete
hub-and-spoke system
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93 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 30 Oct 2023
form of transport topology optimization in which traffic planners organize routes as a series of "spokes" that connect outlying points to a central "hub"
George Gilder
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111 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
an American investor, writer, and economist known for his views on technology and economics
longitudinal study
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295 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 1 May 2018
a research design that involves repeated observations or examinations of the same subjects over a period of time
Frances Cairncross
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23 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 6 Dec 2023
British journalist and economist (1944-)
crony capitalism
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187 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
capitalism featuring undue alliances between business interests and politicians
capital controls
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232 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
monetary policy limiting transfer of assets in or out of a country
cloud computing
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481 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
the delivery of computing services, such as servers, storage, and networking, over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
inverted yield curve
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23 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 19 Jun 2022
an interest rate environment where long-term debt instruments have lower yield than short-term debt instruments, often seen as an indicator of an impending recession.
Bernie Madoff
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266 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
an American financier convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
knowledge economy
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296 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
approach to generating value
yield curve
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144 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
curve showing several interest rates across different contract lengths for a similar debt contract
Peter Eisenman
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24 books
first published
2 Jan 1981
added 11 May 2017
an American architect known for his designs and writings that blend modernist esthetics with post-structural theory
VTOL
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25 books
first published
1981
added 11 Sep 2022
aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically
fudge factor
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49 books
first published
1981
ad hoc element introduced into a calculation
post-industrial society
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107 books
first published
1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
carbon-based life
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38 books
first published
1981
life forms primarily composed of carbon compounds
social contagion
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49 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 23 Aug 2023
behavior, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network
Studio 54
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61 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 17 Aug 2024
rent stabilization
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26 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 12 Jul 2022
a form of rent control that limits how much a landlord can increase rent for existing tenants in certain types of housing.
business logic
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188 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 28 Mar 2023
Gunnar Myrdal
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88 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
oil shock
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274 books
first published
2 Jan 1980
subclass of energy crisis
foreign exchange controls
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49 books
first published
2 Jan 1980
added 22 Nov 2020
controls imposed by a government on the purchase/sale of foreign currencies
Sam Peltzman
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26 books
first published
2 Jan 1980
added 18 Oct 2017
American university professor and economist
Mars Rover
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88 books
first published
1980
added 20 Jan 2017
space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars