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2,723 concepts

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job guarantee — 63 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 6 Jan 2025
+57
Arthur Laffer — 49 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 20 Mar 2025
American economist (1940-)
person
+43
Economic Anthropology — 31 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 7 Oct 2023
+25
Frances Cairncross — 24 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 6 Dec 2023
British journalist and economist (1944-)
+18
Edward Said — 104 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 5 Nov 2024
Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist
person
+98
crony capitalism — 191 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
capitalism featuring undue alliances between business interests and politicians
+185
Bernie Madoff — 274 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
an American financier convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
person
+268
hub-and-spoke system — 95 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"
+89
Mark Zuckerberg — 685 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 person
+679
Robert Gordon — 145 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
+139
moving assembly line — 58 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
+52
Peter Eisenman — 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
person
+18
post-industrial society — 108 books
first published 1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
+102
Tracy Kidder — 39 books
first published 1981 added 30 Jul 2024 person
+33
labeled data — 80 books
first published 1981 added 23 Nov 2024
group of samples that have been tagged with one or more labels
generative artificial intelligence
+74
silicon-based life — 9 books
first published 1981
life whose primary component is silicon
+3
fudge factor — 50 books
first published 1981
ad hoc element introduced into a calculation
+44
industrial research laboratory — 27 books
first published 1981 added 28 Mar 2023
+21
VTOL — 27 books
first published 1981 added 11 Sep 2022
aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically
+21
The Soul of a New Machine — 36 books
first published 1981 added 27 Oct 2021
+30
carbon-based life — 42 books
first published 1981
life forms primarily composed of carbon compounds
+36
rent stabilization — 31 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.
+25
working-age population — 162 books
first published 14 Jul 1980
+156
North Sea oil — 122 books
first published 14 Jul 1980
+116
social contagion — 56 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 23 Aug 2023
behavior, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network
+50
Gunnar Myrdal — 93 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
+87
Studio 54 — 67 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 17 Aug 2024
+61
business logic — 194 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 28 Mar 2023
+188
German hyperinflation — 55 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
+49
foreign exchange controls — 51 books
first published 2 Jan 1980 added 22 Nov 2020
controls imposed by a government on the purchase/sale of foreign currencies
+45
Unsafe at Any Speed — 59 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
+53
Sam Peltzman — 27 books
first published 2 Jan 1980 added 18 Oct 2017
American university professor and economist
+21
oil shock — 286 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
subclass of energy crisis
+280
global pandemic — 294 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
+288
invention of movable type — 50 books
first published 1980
+44
dark pattern — 28 books
first published 1980 added 6 Apr 2022
user interface designed for a user to make choices without being aware of them
+22
germ theory of disease — 87 books
first published 1980 added 30 Dec 2016
Prevailing theory about the cause of infectious diseases
+81
double entry bookkeeping — 112 books
first published 1980
+106
luminiferous ether — 25 books
first published 1980
+19
clockwork universe — 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.
+31
spice trade — 117 books
first published 1980
+111
Edmond Halley — 85 books
first published 1980
+79
planetary scale — 146 books
first published 1980
+140
Mars Rover — 94 books
first published 1980 added 20 Jan 2017
space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars
+88
Tunguska event — 16 books
first published 1980
an explosion that occurred in 1908 over Siberia, likely caused by the airburst of a small comet or asteroid
+10
Ernest Rutherford — 89 books
first published 1980
British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)
+83
Francisco Pizarro — 65 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
+59
David Ricardo: comparative advantage — 168 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.
+162
Atahualpa — 40 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
15th Emperor Inca
+34
Edward Charles Pickering — 9 books
first published 2 Jan 1979 person
+3
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — 85 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
+79
Cepheid variable — 18 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
type of variable star
+12
Harvard Computers: women astronomers — 17 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
+11
Eddington experiment — 48 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity
+42
invention of radio — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
aspect of history relating to the invention of radio
+17
"chuck yeager" AND ("broken ribs" OR "broom handle") — 11 books
first published 1979 added 18 Feb 2024
+5
supersonic airliner — 59 books
first published 1979 added 8 Oct 2023
commercial airliner able to fly faster than the speed of sound
+53
Gene Kranz — 50 books
first published 1979 added 5 Jun 2022
NASA Flight Director and manager
+44
medical malpractice — 74 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
+68
Money creation — 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
+130
Whole Earth Catalog — 165 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
+159
radical decentralization — 62 books
first published 2 Jan 1978 added 15 Jun 2022
+56
Tax Reform Act of 1986 — 40 books
first published 2 Jan 1978 added 23 Nov 2020
US federal tax legislation
+34
Vernor Vinge — 89 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer
+83
Goodhart's law — 151 books
first published 1978 added 25 Oct 2021
adage that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
+145
Kanban — 43 books
first published 1978 added 20 Nov 2021
+37
Kitchen Debate — 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
+35
prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success — 49 books
first published 1978 added 30 Oct 2020
+43
Jerry Rubin — 49 books
first published 1978 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist
person
+43
inventory management — 176 books
first published 1978
in business, the process of managing the stock of goods held for sale in a retail establishment or warehouse
+170
medical residency — 111 books
first published 1978
+105
Induced demand — 33 books
first published 1978 added 16 Feb 2017
+27
Maslow's hierarchy — 96 books
first published 1978 added 24 Mar 2022
+90
Toyota Production System — 65 books
first published 1978
+59
"there is no alternative" (TINA) — 42 books
first published 1978 added 10 Jan 2022
+36
technoutopianism — 158 books
first published 1978
ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia
+152
oil shale / tar sands — 243 books
first published 15 Dec 1977
+237
gravity well — 128 books
first published 15 Dec 1977 added 4 Feb 2017
+122
blood diamond — 77 books
first published 15 Dec 1977
+71
agricultural surplus — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
+70
offshore financial centre — 485 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 finance
+479
mechanical reaper — 33 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
+27
Fairness Doctrine — 75 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 12 Jan 2024
former US broadcasting policy
+69
Mikhail Gorbachev — 394 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 28 Dec 2016 history person politician
+388
jobless men — 13 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 1 Mar 2017
+7
Rosa Parks — 147 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+141
wealth tax — 182 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
+176
Bartolomé de las Casas — 50 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
+44
Herman Kahn — 89 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 18 Mar 2022
+83
Telecommunications Act of 1996 — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
Act of Congress in the United States
+43
Bernie Sanders — 378 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
person
+372
agricultural Revolution — 245 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
+239
very high income — 61 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+55
joint-stock limited liability company — 42 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+36
passive income — 83 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+77
Timothy McVeigh — 80 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 9 Jul 2023
American domestic anti-government terrorist (1968–2001)
+74
W. E. B. Du Bois — 148 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 26 Nov 2021
+142
active measures — 149 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 15 Apr 2017
covert actions to influence events, often linked to Russian intelligence
+143
equal pay for equal work — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+50
Savings and loan crisis — 210 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
+204