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.
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
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"
Solyndra
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46 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 21 Sep 2022
a solar panel manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy, controversial for receiving government loans
Edward Said
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103 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 5 Nov 2024
Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist
moving assembly line
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57 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
clean tech
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95 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
US scientific journal
Robert Solow
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175 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 4 Feb 2018
American economist
Bernie Madoff
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267 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
an American financier convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
deindustrialization
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370 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
process of reduction of industrial activity
capital controls
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234 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
monetary policy limiting transfer of assets in or out of a country
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
Jeff Bezos
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576 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
power law
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236 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 28 Apr 2022
cloud computing
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486 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.
Skinner box
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49 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 24 Oct 2022
job guarantee
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57 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 6 Jan 2025
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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297 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
Norman Borlaug
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68 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 23 Jan 2024
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
carbon-based life
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40 books
first published
1981
life forms primarily composed of carbon compounds
post-industrial society
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107 books
first published
1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
VTOL
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27 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
labeled data
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76 books
first published
1981
added 23 Nov 2024
group of samples that have been tagged with one or more labels
social contagion
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51 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 23 Aug 2023
behavior, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network
business logic
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188 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 28 Mar 2023
Gunnar Myrdal
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90 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
rent stabilization
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28 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.
Studio 54
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63 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 17 Aug 2024
Sam Peltzman
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26 books
first published
2 Jan 1980
added 18 Oct 2017
American university professor and economist
oil shock
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277 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
Ernest Rutherford
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84 books
first published
1980
British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)
global pandemic
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268 books
first published
1980
added 15 Oct 2020
an epidemic of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population
Tunguska event
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16 books
first published
1980
an explosion that occurred in 1908 over Siberia, likely caused by the airburst of a small comet or asteroid
dark pattern
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25 books
first published
1980
added 6 Apr 2022
user interface designed for a user to make choices without being aware of them
Mars Rover
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89 books
first published
1980
added 20 Jan 2017
space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars
clockwork universe
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36 books
first published
1980
a concept from classical physics describing a deterministic, mechanistic universe that runs like clockwork, based on laws discoverable by humans.
germ theory of disease
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84 books
first published
1980
added 30 Dec 2016
Prevailing theory about the cause of infectious diseases
Atahualpa
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38 books
first published
23 Sep 1979
15th Emperor Inca
David Ricardo: comparative advantage
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164 books
first published
23 Sep 1979
an economic principle formulated by David Ricardo, stating that countries should specialize in the production of goods where they have a relative efficiency advantage.
invention of radio
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21 books
first published
2 Jan 1979
aspect of history relating to the invention of radio
Eddington experiment
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48 books
first published
2 Jan 1979
1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity
Gene Kranz
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49 books
first published
1979
added 5 Jun 2022
NASA Flight Director and manager
Money creation
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136 books
first published
2 Jan 1978
added 9 Nov 2020
the process by which the money supply of a country or a monetary region is expanded, typically by its central bank
Vernor Vinge
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86 books
first published
2 Jan 1978
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer
Kitchen Debate
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40 books
first published
1978
added 16 Aug 2017
exchanges of views between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon at an exhibition in Moscow in July 1959
technoutopianism
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147 books
first published
1978
ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia
Jerry Rubin
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47 books
first published
1978
added 17 Aug 2024
American activist
inventory management
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172 books
first published
1978
in business, the process of managing the stock of goods held for sale in a retail establishment or warehouse
Kanban
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42 books
first published
1978
added 20 Nov 2021
New Urbanism
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348 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
urban design movement promoting walkable neighborhoods with a wide range of housing and job types