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Edward Said — 104 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 5 Nov 2024
Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist
person
+98
George Gilder — 114 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
an American investor, writer, and economist known for his views on technology and economics
person
+108
power law — 251 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 28 Apr 2022
+245
skunkworks — 67 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
+61
Robert Gordon — 149 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
+143
Aspen Institute — 153 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 19 Jun 2024
+147
hub-and-spoke system — 96 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"
+90
income inequality — 823 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 society
+817
money: store of value / unit of account / medium of exchange — 76 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
+70
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
job-hopping — 46 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
+40
women in the workforce — 317 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
women who perform some kind of job
+311
Mark Zuckerberg — 697 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 person
+691
Laffer curve — 54 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 20 Mar 2025 economics
+48
longitudinal study — 306 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
+300
inverted yield curve — 24 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.
+18
job guarantee — 63 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 6 Jan 2025
+57
Jeff Bezos — 621 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
person tech
+615
non-fiction novel — 14 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
literary genre
+8
labor-force participation — 171 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 15 Jan 2017
the percentage of working-age people who are either employed or actively seeking work
+165
zero-interest-rate policy — 38 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 17 Jan 2026
+32
generational wealth — 212 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 11 Oct 2023
+206
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
The Soul of a New Machine — 37 books
first published 1981 added 27 Oct 2021
+31
carbon-based life — 42 books
first published 1981
life forms primarily composed of carbon compounds
+36
labeled data — 83 books
first published 1981 added 23 Nov 2024
group of samples that have been tagged with one or more labels
generative artificial intelligence
+77
VTOL — 29 books
first published 1981 added 11 Sep 2022
aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically
+23
Tracy Kidder — 41 books
first published 1981 added 30 Jul 2024 person
+35
silicon-based life — 9 books
first published 1981
life whose primary component is silicon
+3
industrial research laboratory — 28 books
first published 1981 added 28 Mar 2023
+22
post-industrial society — 109 books
first published 1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
+103
fudge factor — 50 books
first published 1981
ad hoc element introduced into a calculation
+44
social contagion — 58 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 23 Aug 2023
behavior, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network
+52
working-age population — 163 books
first published 14 Jul 1980
+157
North Sea oil — 125 books
first published 14 Jul 1980
+119
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
Gunnar Myrdal — 93 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
+87
business logic — 194 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 28 Mar 2023
+188
Studio 54 — 67 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 17 Aug 2024
+61
oil shock — 287 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
subclass of energy crisis
+281
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
German hyperinflation — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
+50
foreign exchange controls — 52 books
first published 2 Jan 1980 added 22 Nov 2020
controls imposed by a government on the purchase/sale of foreign currencies
+46
luminiferous ether — 25 books
first published 1980
+19
planetary scale — 147 books
first published 1980
+141
spice trade — 119 books
first published 1980
+113
double entry bookkeeping — 114 books
first published 1980
+108
dark pattern — 29 books
first published 1980 added 6 Apr 2022
user interface designed for a user to make choices without being aware of them
+23
Ernest Rutherford — 90 books
first published 1980
British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)
+84
invention of movable type — 51 books
first published 1980
+45
global pandemic — 299 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
+293
Edmond Halley — 87 books
first published 1980
+81
clockwork universe — 38 books
first published 1980
a concept from classical physics describing a deterministic, mechanistic universe that runs like clockwork, based on laws discoverable by humans.
+32
germ theory of disease — 88 books
first published 1980 added 30 Dec 2016
Prevailing theory about the cause of infectious diseases
+82
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
Mars Rover — 98 books
first published 1980 added 20 Jan 2017
space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars
+92
Atahualpa — 41 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
15th Emperor Inca
+35
David Ricardo: comparative advantage — 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.
+163
Francisco Pizarro — 67 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
+61
Edward Charles Pickering — 9 books
first published 2 Jan 1979 person
+3
Cepheid variable — 18 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
type of variable star
+12
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — 87 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
+81
Eddington experiment — 48 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity
+42
invention of radio — 24 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
aspect of history relating to the invention of radio
+18
Harvard Computers: women astronomers — 17 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
+11
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
"chuck yeager" AND ("broken ribs" OR "broom handle") — 12 books
first published 1979 added 18 Feb 2024
+6
medical malpractice — 74 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
+68
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
Whole Earth Catalog — 168 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
+162
Money creation — 138 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
+132
radical decentralization — 62 books
first published 2 Jan 1978 added 15 Jun 2022
+56
Toyota Production System — 67 books
first published 1978
+61
"there is no alternative" (TINA) — 43 books
first published 1978 added 10 Jan 2022
+37
technoutopianism — 161 books
first published 1978
ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia
+155
Goodhart's law — 153 books
first published 1978 added 25 Oct 2021
adage that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
+147
Maslow's hierarchy — 97 books
first published 1978 added 24 Mar 2022
+91
prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success — 51 books
first published 1978 added 30 Oct 2020
+45
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
inventory management — 177 books
first published 1978
in business, the process of managing the stock of goods held for sale in a retail establishment or warehouse
+171
Jerry Rubin — 49 books
first published 1978 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist
person
+43
Induced demand — 33 books
first published 1978 added 16 Feb 2017
+27
medical residency — 114 books
first published 1978
+108
Kanban — 44 books
first published 1978 added 20 Nov 2021
+38
oil shale / tar sands — 245 books
first published 15 Dec 1977
+239
gravity well — 129 books
first published 15 Dec 1977 added 4 Feb 2017
+123
blood diamond — 78 books
first published 15 Dec 1977
+72
passive income — 83 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+77
Mikhail Gorbachev — 396 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 28 Dec 2016 person history politician
+390
agricultural Revolution — 249 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
+243
Bernie Sanders — 381 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
person
+375
jobless men — 13 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 1 Mar 2017
+7
Rosa Parks — 151 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+145
Telecommunications Act of 1996 — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
Act of Congress in the United States
+43
active measures — 150 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 15 Apr 2017
covert actions to influence events, often linked to Russian intelligence
+144
equal pay for equal work — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+50
joint-stock limited liability company — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+37