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2,731 concepts

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zero-interest-rate policy — 38 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 17 Jan 2026
+32
Skinner box — 52 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 24 Oct 2022
+46
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
paradox of thrift — 48 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
+42
job guarantee — 63 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 6 Jan 2025
+57
Norman Borlaug — 69 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 23 Jan 2024
+63
Jeff Bezos — 619 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
person tech
+613
Bernie Madoff — 275 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
an American financier convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
person
+269
Frances Cairncross — 24 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 6 Dec 2023
British journalist and economist (1944-)
+18
Laffer curve — 54 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 20 Mar 2025 economics
+48
knowledge economy — 308 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
approach to generating value
+302
Mark Zuckerberg — 692 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 person
+686
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
Robert Gordon — 149 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
+143
income inequality — 821 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 society
+815
Economic Anthropology — 31 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 7 Oct 2023
+25
Mont Pelerin Society — 68 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 24 Dec 2016
+62
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
crony capitalism — 193 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
capitalism featuring undue alliances between business interests and politicians
capitalism
+187
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
VTOL — 29 books
first published 1981 added 11 Sep 2022
aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically
+23
silicon-based life — 9 books
first published 1981
life whose primary component is silicon
+3
Tracy Kidder — 41 books
first published 1981 added 30 Jul 2024 person
+35
fudge factor — 50 books
first published 1981
ad hoc element introduced into a calculation
+44
post-industrial society — 109 books
first published 1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
+103
carbon-based life — 42 books
first published 1981
life forms primarily composed of carbon compounds
+36
labeled data — 82 books
first published 1981 added 23 Nov 2024
group of samples that have been tagged with one or more labels
generative artificial intelligence
+76
industrial research laboratory — 28 books
first published 1981 added 28 Mar 2023
+22
The Soul of a New Machine — 37 books
first published 1981 added 27 Oct 2021
+31
working-age population — 163 books
first published 14 Jul 1980
+157
Gunnar Myrdal — 93 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
+87
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
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
North Sea oil — 124 books
first published 14 Jul 1980
+118
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
Sam Peltzman — 27 books
first published 2 Jan 1980 added 18 Oct 2017
American university professor and economist
+21
oil shock — 287 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
subclass of energy crisis
+281
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
German hyperinflation — 55 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
+49
Unsafe at Any Speed — 59 books
first published 2 Jan 1980
+53
germ theory of disease — 88 books
first published 1980 added 30 Dec 2016
Prevailing theory about the cause of infectious diseases
+82
global pandemic — 298 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
+292
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
Edmond Halley — 87 books
first published 1980
+81
invention of movable type — 51 books
first published 1980
+45
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
Ernest Rutherford — 90 books
first published 1980
British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)
+84
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
luminiferous ether — 25 books
first published 1980
+19
double entry bookkeeping — 113 books
first published 1980
+107
spice trade — 118 books
first published 1980
+112
planetary scale — 147 books
first published 1980
+141
Mars Rover — 98 books
first published 1980 added 20 Jan 2017
space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars
+92
Francisco Pizarro — 66 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
+60
Atahualpa — 40 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
15th Emperor Inca
+34
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
Cepheid variable — 18 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
type of variable star
+12
Edward Charles Pickering — 9 books
first published 2 Jan 1979 person
+3
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
Eddington experiment — 48 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity
+42
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — 87 books
first published 2 Jan 1979
+81
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
Whole Earth Catalog — 168 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
+162
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
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
Toyota Production System — 67 books
first published 1978
+61
Induced demand — 33 books
first published 1978 added 16 Feb 2017
+27
prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success — 50 books
first published 1978 added 30 Oct 2020
+44
Jerry Rubin — 49 books
first published 1978 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist
person
+43
technoutopianism — 159 books
first published 1978
ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia
+153
Goodhart's law — 152 books
first published 1978 added 25 Oct 2021
adage that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
+146
"there is no alternative" (TINA) — 42 books
first published 1978 added 10 Jan 2022
+36
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
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
Maslow's hierarchy — 97 books
first published 1978 added 24 Mar 2022
+91
Kanban — 44 books
first published 1978 added 20 Nov 2021
+38
medical residency — 114 books
first published 1978
+108
blood diamond — 78 books
first published 15 Dec 1977
+72
gravity well — 129 books
first published 15 Dec 1977 added 4 Feb 2017
+123
oil shale / tar sands — 245 books
first published 15 Dec 1977
+239
Telecommunications Act of 1996 — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
Act of Congress in the United States
+43
Fairness Doctrine — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 12 Jan 2024
former US broadcasting policy
+70
Savings and loan crisis — 211 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
+205
agricultural Revolution — 247 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
+241
W. E. B. Du Bois — 151 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 26 Nov 2021
+145
mechanical reaper — 33 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
+27
active measures — 150 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 15 Apr 2017
covert actions to influence events, often linked to Russian intelligence
+144
Herman Kahn — 89 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 18 Mar 2022
+83
Bernie Sanders — 381 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
person
+375
Mikhail Gorbachev — 396 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 28 Dec 2016 person history politician
+390
wealth tax — 184 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
+178
equal pay for equal work — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+50
jobless men — 13 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 1 Mar 2017
+7