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2,703 concepts

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crony capitalism — 191 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
capitalism featuring undue alliances between business interests and politicians
labor-force participation — 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
San Francisco homelessness — 80 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 24 Oct 2021
Home mortgage interest deduction — 77 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
a tax deduction for homeowners based on the interest paid on a home mortgage
deindustrialization — 383 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
process of reduction of industrial activity
Jeff Bezos — 606 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
volatility arbitrage — 6 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
type of arbitrage
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
post-industrial society — 108 books
first published 1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
fudge factor — 50 books
first published 1981
ad hoc element introduced into a calculation
VTOL — 27 books
first published 1981 added 11 Sep 2022
aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically
industrial research laboratory — 27 books
first published 1981 added 28 Mar 2023
carbon-based life — 41 books
first published 1981
life forms primarily composed of carbon compounds
silicon-based life — 8 books
first published 1981
life whose primary component is silicon
labeled data — 79 books
first published 1981 added 23 Nov 2024
group of samples that have been tagged with one or more labels
Studio 54 — 67 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 17 Aug 2024
social contagion — 55 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 23 Aug 2023
behavior, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network
rent stabilization — 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.
North Sea oil — 122 books
first published 14 Jul 1980
Gunnar Myrdal — 94 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
working-age population — 162 books
first published 14 Jul 1980
business logic — 194 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 28 Mar 2023
Sam Peltzman — 27 books
first published 2 Jan 1980 added 18 Oct 2017
American university professor and economist
Unsafe at Any Speed — 59 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
German hyperinflation — 74 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
oil shock — 287 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
subclass of energy crisis
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
germ theory of disease — 87 books
first published 1980 added 30 Dec 2016
Prevailing theory about the cause of infectious diseases
CDC contaminated tests — 23 books
first published 1980 added 29 Dec 2023
double entry bookkeeping — 123 books
first published 1980
invention of movable type — 102 books
first published 1980
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.
Mars Rover — 94 books
first published 1980 added 20 Jan 2017
space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars
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
luminiferous ether — 25 books
first published 1980
spice trade — 116 books
first published 1980
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
global pandemic — 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
planetary scale — 144 books
first published 1980
Ernest Rutherford — 88 books
first published 1980
British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)
Edmond Halley — 84 books
first published 1980
Atahualpa — 40 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
15th Emperor Inca
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.
Francisco Pizarro — 65 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — 85 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
Harvard Computers: women astronomers — 17 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
Edward Charles Pickering — 9 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
Eddington experiment — 48 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity
Cepheid variable — 18 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
type of variable star
invention of radio — 23 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
aspect of history relating to the invention of radio
supersonic airliner — 60 books
first published 1979 added 8 Oct 2023
commercial airliner able to fly faster than the speed of sound
"chuck yeager" AND ("broken ribs" OR "broom handle") — 11 books
first published 1979 added 18 Feb 2024
Gene Kranz — 49 books
first published 1979 added 5 Jun 2022
NASA Flight Director and manager
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
radical decentralization — 55 books
first published 2 Jan 1978 added 15 Jun 2022
Vernor Vinge — 89 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer
Tax Reform Act of 1986 — 40 books
first published 2 Jan 1978 added 23 Nov 2020
US federal tax legislation
medical malpractice — 74 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
Whole Earth Catalog — 165 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
Kanban — 44 books
first published 1978 added 20 Nov 2021
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
Maslow's hierarchy — 9 books
first published 1978 added 24 Mar 2022
medical residency — 111 books
first published 1978
prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success — 48 books
first published 1978 added 30 Oct 2020
technoutopianism — 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 — 49 books
first published 1978 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist
Toyota Production System — 64 books
first published 1978
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
Induced demand — 33 books
first published 1978 added 16 Feb 2017
blood diamond — 76 books
first published 15 Dec 1977
oil shale / tar sands — 240 books
first published 15 Dec 1977
passive income — 81 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
equal pay for equal work — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
Herman Kahn — 89 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 18 Mar 2022
jobless men — 13 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 1 Mar 2017
active measures — 146 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 15 Apr 2017
covert actions to influence events, often linked to Russian intelligence
very high income — 61 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
agricultural surplus — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
Timothy McVeigh — 80 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 9 Jul 2023
American domestic anti-government terrorist (1968–2001)
Bartolomé de las Casas — 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
Telecommunications Act of 1996 — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
Act of Congress in the United States
offshore financial centre — 481 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
agricultural Revolution — 245 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
Bernie Sanders — 376 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
death of newspapers — 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
Rosa Parks — 147 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
Savings and loan crisis — 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
W. E. B. Du Bois — 148 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 26 Nov 2021
New Urbanism — 361 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
urban design movement promoting walkable neighborhoods with a wide range of housing and job types
Mikhail Gorbachev — 392 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 28 Dec 2016
wealth tax — 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 — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 12 Jan 2024
former US broadcasting policy
mechanical reaper — 34 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
commoditize — 305 books
first published 1977 added 22 May 2017
correlation coefficient — 124 books
first published 1977
technological determinism — 112 books
first published 1977 added 29 Sep 2022
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
estate planning — 112 books
first published 1977
process of planning for inheritance of property
guns versus butter model — 96 books
first published 1977 added 16 Oct 2022
macroeconomic relationship between defense spending and civilian welfare
Drosophila — 95 books
first published 1977
genus of insects
placebo effect — 204 books
first published 1977