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2,727 concepts
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capital controls
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242 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
first published 30 Apr 1981
monetary policy limiting transfer of assets in or out of a country
Edward Said
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104 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 5 Nov 2024
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 5 Nov 2024
Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist
person
labor-force participation
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170 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 15 Jan 2017
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 15 Jan 2017
the percentage of working-age people who are either employed or actively seeking work
cloud computing
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508 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
first published 30 Apr 1981
the delivery of computing services, such as servers, storage, and networking, over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
money: store of value / unit of account / medium of exchange
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73 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
first published 30 Apr 1981
moving assembly line
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58 books
first published 30 Apr 1981 added 30 Oct 2023
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
Jeff Bezos
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612 books
first published 30 Apr 1981
first published 30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
person
tech
Peter Eisenman
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24 books
first published 2 Jan 1981 added 11 May 2017
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
VTOL
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27 books
first published 1981 added 11 Sep 2022
first published 1981 added 11 Sep 2022
aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically
post-industrial society
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108 books
first published 1981
first published 1981
societies whose service sector provides more economic value than manufcaturing
labeled data
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80 books
first published 1981 added 23 Nov 2024
first published 1981 added 23 Nov 2024
group of samples that have been tagged with one or more labels
generative artificial intelligence
Gunnar Myrdal
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93 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 21 Feb 2017
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 21 Feb 2017
Swedish economist (1898-1987)
rent stabilization
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31 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 12 Jul 2022
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.
social contagion
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56 books
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 23 Aug 2023
first published 14 Jul 1980 added 23 Aug 2023
behavior, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network
foreign exchange controls
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51 books
first published 2 Jan 1980 added 22 Nov 2020
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
first published 2 Jan 1980 added 18 Oct 2017
American university professor and economist
germ theory of disease
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87 books
first published 1980 added 30 Dec 2016
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
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
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
first published 1980
an explosion that occurred in 1908 over Siberia, likely caused by the airburst of a small comet or asteroid
Mars Rover
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94 books
first published 1980 added 20 Jan 2017
first published 1980 added 20 Jan 2017
space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of Mars
Ernest Rutherford
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89 books
first published 1980
first published 1980
British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)
global pandemic
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294 books
first published 1980 added 15 Oct 2020
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
David Ricardo: comparative advantage
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168 books
first published 23 Sep 1979
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
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
first published 2 Jan 1979
1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity
supersonic airliner
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59 books
first published 1979 added 8 Oct 2023
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")
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11 books
first published 1979 added 18 Feb 2024
first published 1979 added 18 Feb 2024
Tax Reform Act of 1986
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40 books
first published 2 Jan 1978 added 23 Nov 2020
first published 2 Jan 1978 added 23 Nov 2020
US federal tax legislation
Vernor Vinge
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89 books
first published 2 Jan 1978
first published 2 Jan 1978
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer
Money creation
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136 books
first published 2 Jan 1978 added 9 Nov 2020
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
Kitchen Debate
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41 books
first published 1978 added 16 Aug 2017
first published 1978 added 16 Aug 2017
exchanges of views between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon at an exhibition in Moscow in July 1959
inventory management
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176 books
first published 1978
first published 1978
in business, the process of managing the stock of goods held for sale in a retail establishment or warehouse
prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success
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49 books
first published 1978 added 30 Oct 2020
first published 1978 added 30 Oct 2020
technoutopianism
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158 books
first published 1978
first published 1978
ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia
Goodhart's law
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151 books
first published 1978 added 25 Oct 2021
first published 1978 added 25 Oct 2021
adage that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
Bernie Sanders
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378 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
first published 2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
person
Savings and loan crisis
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210 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 22 Nov 2020
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
Timothy McVeigh
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80 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 9 Jul 2023
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 9 Jul 2023
American domestic anti-government terrorist (1968–2001)
Mikhail Gorbachev
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394 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 28 Dec 2016 person history politician
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 28 Dec 2016 person history politician
wealth tax
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182 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 19 Jan 2024
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
Telecommunications Act of 1996
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49 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
first published 2 Jan 1977
Act of Congress in the United States
Fairness Doctrine
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75 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 12 Jan 2024
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 12 Jan 2024
former US broadcasting policy
