crony capitalism
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191 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
capitalism featuring undue alliances between business interests and politicians
labor-force participation
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170 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 15 Jan 2017
the percentage of working-age people who are either employed or actively seeking work
deindustrialization
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383 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
process of reduction of industrial activity
Jeff Bezos
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606 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
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
post-industrial society
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108 books
first published
1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
fudge factor
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50 books
first published
1981
ad hoc element introduced into a calculation
VTOL
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27 books
first published
1981
added 11 Sep 2022
aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically
carbon-based life
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41 books
first published
1981
life forms primarily composed of carbon compounds
labeled data
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79 books
first published
1981
added 23 Nov 2024
group of samples that have been tagged with one or more labels
Studio 54
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67 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 17 Aug 2024
social contagion
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55 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 23 Aug 2023
behavior, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network
rent stabilization
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30 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.
Gunnar Myrdal
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94 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
business logic
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194 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 28 Mar 2023
Sam Peltzman
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27 books
first published
2 Jan 1980
added 18 Oct 2017
American university professor and economist
oil shock
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287 books
first published
2 Jan 1980
subclass of energy crisis
foreign exchange controls
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51 books
first published
2 Jan 1980
added 22 Nov 2020
controls imposed by a government on the purchase/sale of foreign currencies
germ theory of disease
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87 books
first published
1980
added 30 Dec 2016
Prevailing theory about the cause of infectious diseases
clockwork universe
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37 books
first published
1980
a concept from classical physics describing a deterministic, mechanistic universe that runs like clockwork, based on laws discoverable by humans.
Mars Rover
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94 books
first published
1980
added 20 Jan 2017
space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars
dark pattern
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28 books
first published
1980
added 6 Apr 2022
user interface designed for a user to make choices without being aware of them
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
global pandemic
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291 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
Ernest Rutherford
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88 books
first published
1980
British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)
Atahualpa
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40 books
first published
23 Sep 1979
15th Emperor Inca
David Ricardo: comparative advantage
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169 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.
Eddington experiment
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48 books
first published
2 Jan 1979
1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity
invention of radio
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23 books
first published
2 Jan 1979
aspect of history relating to the invention of radio
supersonic airliner
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60 books
first published
1979
added 8 Oct 2023
commercial airliner able to fly faster than the speed of sound
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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89 books
first published
2 Jan 1978
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer
Kanban
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44 books
first published
1978
added 20 Nov 2021
Kitchen Debate
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41 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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157 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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49 books
first published
1978
added 17 Aug 2024
American activist
inventory management
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176 books
first published
1978
in business, the process of managing the stock of goods held for sale in a retail establishment or warehouse
Herman Kahn
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89 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 18 Mar 2022
jobless men
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13 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 1 Mar 2017
active measures
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146 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 15 Apr 2017
covert actions to influence events, often linked to Russian intelligence
Timothy McVeigh
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80 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 9 Jul 2023
American domestic anti-government terrorist (1968–2001)
Bartolomé de las Casas
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46 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
a 16th-century Spanish historian and missionary known for advocating for the rights of indigenous people in the Americas
agricultural Revolution
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245 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
Bernie Sanders
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376 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
death of newspapers
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67 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 20 Jan 2017
a term that refers to the decline of newspapers due to the rise of digital media
Savings and loan crisis
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193 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 22 Nov 2020
a financial crisis that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s involving the failure of numerous U.S. savings and loan associations
New Urbanism
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361 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
urban design movement promoting walkable neighborhoods with a wide range of housing and job types
wealth tax
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181 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 19 Jan 2024
levy on the total value of personal assets, including owner-occupied housing; cash, bank deposits, money funds, and savings in insurance and pension plans
Fairness Doctrine
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76 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 12 Jan 2024
former US broadcasting policy
commoditize
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305 books
first published
1977
added 22 May 2017
technological determinism
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112 books
first published
1977
added 29 Sep 2022
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
estate planning
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112 books
first published
1977
process of planning for inheritance of property
guns versus butter model
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96 books
first published
1977
added 16 Oct 2022
macroeconomic relationship between defense spending and civilian welfare
Drosophila
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95 books
first published
1977
genus of insects