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2,618 concepts

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very high income — 57 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
equal pay for equal work — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
W. E. B. Du Bois — 139 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 26 Nov 2021
Herman Kahn — 88 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 18 Mar 2022
agricultural Revolution — 240 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
Savings and loan crisis — 192 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
New Urbanism — 348 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
urban design movement promoting walkable neighborhoods with a wide range of housing and job types
active measures — 136 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 15 Apr 2017
covert actions to influence events, often linked to Russian intelligence
Bernie Sanders — 358 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
Rosa Parks — 142 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
agricultural surplus — 42 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
Bartolomé de las Casas — 45 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
offshore financial centre — 470 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
wealth tax — 175 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
mechanical reaper — 31 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
jobless men — 13 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 1 Mar 2017
Telecommunications Act of 1996 — 46 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
Act of Congress in the United States
Mikhail Gorbachev — 378 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 28 Dec 2016
commoditize — 299 books
first published 1977 added 22 May 2017
Drosophila — 93 books
first published 1977
genus of insects
European colonialism — 303 books
first published 1977
settlement, conquest, and colonization by Europeans
guns versus butter model — 92 books
first published 1977 added 16 Oct 2022
macroeconomic relationship between defense spending and civilian welfare
technological determinism — 111 books
first published 1977 added 29 Sep 2022
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
dematerialisation — 151 books
first published 1977
estate planning — 107 books
first published 1977
process of planning for inheritance of property
twin studies — 96 books
first published 1977 added 2 May 2018
correlation coefficient — 123 books
first published 1977
music of the spheres — 49 books
first published 1977
trickle-down economics — 203 books
first published 1977
placebo effect — 201 books
first published 1977
Future Shock — 129 books
first published 1977 added 2 Nov 2021
Scientific racism — 81 books
first published 1977 added 28 Jan 2017
misuse of the scientific method to justify racism
Gregor Mendel — 121 books
first published 1976 added 26 Nov 2021
Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
Neil Armstrong — 298 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote — 27 books
first published 1976
a non-fiction novel that details the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Kansas and the investigation that led to the capture of the killers
Fran Lebowitz — 16 books
first published 1976 added 22 Aug 2024
American author and public speaker (b. 1950)
Alistair Cooke — 23 books
first published 1976
information retrieval — 176 books
first published 1976
activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources
Apollo 11 — 220 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
first Moon landing and fifth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program
Thomas L Friedman — 131 books
first published 1976
American journalist and author
telemarketer — 182 books
first published 1976
popular capitalism — 25 books
first published 1976 added 23 Feb 2017
Necker cube — 28 books
first published 1976
Garrett Hardin — 120 books
first published 1976 added 25 Oct 2021
American ecologist (1915–2003)
Selfish Gene — 198 books
first published 1976 added 13 Oct 2023
a book by Richard Dawkins that popularized the gene-centric view of evolution
Southern State Parkway — 9 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 20 Aug 2022
highway in New York
scientific management — 237 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 14 Nov 2021
Works Progress Administration — 162 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
ghettoisation — 130 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — 47 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
friendly fire — 181 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
attack on friendly forces misidentified as hostile ones
high-speed rail — 255 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 27 Oct 2021
type of rail network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail
American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card — 47 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
benefit corporation — 77 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 5 Oct 2023
a type of for-profit corporation that also has social or environmental goals
urban decay — 107 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
urban planning — 494 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
the technical and political process of designing and regulating the use of land, resources, and infrastructure in cities.
housing crisis — 300 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
Wikimedia disambiguation page
large denomination — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1975
thought leader — 336 books
first published 1975 added 11 Oct 2023
Strategic Defense Initiative — 110 books
first published 1975 added 15 Nov 2021
American missile defense system
Conway's law — 8 books
first published 1975 added 23 Feb 2022
adage stating that organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure
Khyber Pass — 65 books
first published 1975
mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan
Multics — 69 books
first published 1975 added 3 Jun 2023
operating system
Anton Chekhov — 58 books
first published 1975
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
drop ship — 36 books
first published 1975 added 3 Oct 2023
supply chain management method in which the retailer directs their suppliers to ship directly to the retailer's customers
Ken Thompson — 70 books
first published 1975 added 24 Feb 2022
Tacoma Narrows Bridge — 22 books
first published 1975
HyperCard — 35 books
first published 1975
hypermedia system for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers
no silver bullet — 21 books
first published 1975 added 30 Jun 2022
Occam's razor — 18 books
first published 1975
philosophical principle used to judge credibility of statements
Boeing 747 — 231 books
first published 1975 added 26 Oct 2021
seminal paper — 202 books
first published 1975 added 17 Jul 2022
an academic paper that has a significant and lasting influence on its field
colonial exploitation — 56 books
first published 1 Dec 1974
refers to the historical practice where colonial powers extracted natural resources and exploited indigenous populations for economic gain.
The Nature of the Firm — 94 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
a paper wrote by Ronald Coase
Ronald Coase — 156 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 20 Jan 2017
British economist and author (1910-2013)
Kenneth Arrow — 133 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 22 Feb 2017
an American economist notable for his contributions to welfare economics, general equilibrium analysis, and information economics; winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
veil of ignorance — 74 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
album by Raised Fist
school vouchers — 66 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
free-rider problem — 109 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 30 Dec 2023
consumption of goods & services without payment
Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman — 9 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer — 21 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 2 May 2024
John Rawls — 164 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
Pareto efficiency — 76 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 14 Feb 2017
economic concept of a state in which no reallocation of resources can make everyone at least as well off
Herbert Marcuse — 103 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 20 Jun 2021
a German-American philosopher and sociologist, known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
night-watchman state — 17 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
minimal state
probability theory / Blaise Pascal / Pierre de Fermat — 34 books
first published 1974
Parkinson's law — 47 books
first published 1974
adage that work expands to fill the time available
Seymour Hersh — 118 books
first published 1974 added 30 May 2021
American investigative journalist
Ralph Nader — 220 books
first published 1974
linear programming — 64 books
first published 1974
programming method to achieve the best outcome in a mathematical model
zero day — 88 books
first published 1974
Ivan Sutherland — 47 books
first published 1974 added 23 Aug 2023
How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? — 9 books
first published 1974 added 6 Nov 2020
declining real wages — 79 books
first published 1974 added 30 Dec 2016
disinformation — 531 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive and manipulate
housing justice — 15 books
first published 1974 added 12 Jul 2022
London based charity
nuremberg principles — 9 books
first published 1974
set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime, created by the UN International Law Commission to codify the legal principles underlying the Nuremberg Trials
discrete time — 64 books
first published 1974
G4S — 135 books
first published 1974 added 26 Feb 2017
public intellectual — 281 books
first published 1974 added 20 Sep 2023