inverted yield curve
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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.
moving assembly line
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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
accelerated depreciation
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34 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 26 Oct 2021
accounting method for faster asset cost write-off
deindustrialization
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383 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
process of reduction of industrial activity
Bernie Madoff
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271 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
an American financier convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
yield curve
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148 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
curve showing several interest rates across different contract lengths for a similar debt contract
Jeff Bezos
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606 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
paradox of thrift
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46 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
capital controls
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240 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
monetary policy limiting transfer of assets in or out of a country
power law
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245 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 28 Apr 2022
longitudinal study
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303 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
job guarantee
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62 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 6 Jan 2025
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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27 books
first published
1981
added 11 Sep 2022
aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically
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
fudge factor
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50 books
first published
1981
ad hoc element introduced into a calculation
carbon-based life
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41 books
first published
1981
life forms primarily composed of carbon compounds
post-industrial society
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108 books
first published
1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
business logic
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194 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 28 Mar 2023
Gunnar Myrdal
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94 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
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.
Studio 54
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67 books
first published
14 Jul 1980
added 17 Aug 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
invention of radio
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23 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
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
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
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
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
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
Jerry Rubin
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49 books
first published
1978
added 17 Aug 2024
American activist
Kanban
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44 books
first published
1978
added 20 Nov 2021
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
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
Timothy McVeigh
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80 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 9 Jul 2023
American domestic anti-government terrorist (1968–2001)
Fairness Doctrine
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76 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 12 Jan 2024
former US broadcasting policy
agricultural Revolution
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245 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
jobless men
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13 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
added 1 Mar 2017
Bernie Sanders
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376 books
first published
2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
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
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
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