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2,734 concepts

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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
offshore financial centre — 490 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 finance
+484
Bernie Sanders — 381 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
an American politician, senator from Vermont, and two-time presidential candidate
person
+375
Herman Kahn — 89 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 18 Mar 2022
+83
passive income — 83 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+77
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
Mikhail Gorbachev — 396 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 28 Dec 2016 person history politician
+390
equal pay for equal work — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+50
Fairness Doctrine — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 12 Jan 2024
former US broadcasting policy
+70
jobless men — 13 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 1 Mar 2017
+7
W. E. B. Du Bois — 151 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 26 Nov 2021
+145
guns versus butter model — 88 books
first published 1977 added 16 Oct 2022
macroeconomic relationship between defense spending and civilian welfare
+82
trickle-down economics — 207 books
first published 1977
+201
estate planning — 112 books
first published 1977
process of planning for inheritance of property
+106
dematerialisation — 154 books
first published 1977
+148
twin studies — 97 books
first published 1977 added 2 May 2018
+91
commoditize — 343 books
first published 1977 added 22 May 2017
+337
Drosophila — 98 books
first published 1977
genus of insects
+92
Scientific racism — 87 books
first published 1977 added 28 Jan 2017
misuse of the scientific method to justify racism
+81
European colonialism — 319 books
first published 1977
settlement, conquest, and colonization by Europeans
history
+313
Future Shock — 136 books
first published 1977 added 2 Nov 2021
+130
technological determinism — 113 books
first published 1977 added 29 Sep 2022
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
+107
correlation coefficient — 125 books
first published 1977
+119
placebo effect — 208 books
first published 1977
+202
music of the spheres — 51 books
first published 1977
+45
Neil Armstrong — 315 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
+309
telemarketer — 191 books
first published 1976
+185
Necker cube — 29 books
first published 1976
+23
open borders — 231 books
first published 1976
+225
Apollo 11 — 230 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
first Moon landing and fifth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program
+224
popular capitalism — 26 books
first published 1976 added 23 Feb 2017 capitalism
+20
Thomas L Friedman — 136 books
first published 1976
American journalist and author
person
+130
Garrett Hardin — 125 books
first published 1976 added 25 Oct 2021
American ecologist (1915–2003)
+119
information retrieval — 181 books
first published 1976
activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources
+175
Fran Lebowitz — 17 books
first published 1976 added 22 Aug 2024
American author and public speaker (b. 1950)
person
+11
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
+21
Gregor Mendel — 125 books
first published 1976 added 26 Nov 2021
Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
+119
Selfish Gene — 199 books
first published 1976 added 13 Oct 2023
a book by Richard Dawkins that popularized the gene-centric view of evolution
+193
Alistair Cooke — 23 books
first published 1976
+17
Works Progress Administration — 168 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+162
scientific management — 245 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 14 Nov 2021
+239
high-speed rail — 272 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
+266
ghettoisation — 130 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+124
American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card — 47 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+41
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — 51 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+45
benefit corporation — 80 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 5 Oct 2023
a type of for-profit corporation that also has social or environmental goals
+74
urban decay — 115 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+109
Southern State Parkway — 9 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 20 Aug 2022
highway in New York
+3
housing crisis — 326 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
Wikimedia disambiguation page
+320
urban planning — 522 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
the technical and political process of designing and regulating the use of land, resources, and infrastructure in cities.
+516
friendly fire — 193 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
attack on friendly forces misidentified as hostile ones
+187
large denomination — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1975
+50
thought leader — 351 books
first published 1975 added 11 Oct 2023
+345
Anton Chekhov — 58 books
first published 1975
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
+52
Khyber Pass — 74 books
first published 1975
mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan
+68
seminal paper — 211 books
first published 1975 added 17 Jul 2022
an academic paper that has a significant and lasting influence on its field
+205
HyperCard — 38 books
first published 1975
hypermedia system for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers
+32
software factory — 21 books
first published 1975 added 19 Feb 2025
software development process applying manufacturing techniques and principles to to mimic the benefits of traditional manufacturing
+15
Boeing 747 — 243 books
first published 1975 added 26 Oct 2021
+237
Multics — 56 books
first published 1975 added 3 Jun 2023
operating system
+50
Ken Thompson — 71 books
first published 1975 added 24 Feb 2022
+65
no silver bullet — 21 books
first published 1975 added 30 Jun 2022
+15
Tacoma Narrows Bridge — 22 books
first published 1975
+16
Conway's law — 16 books
first published 1975 added 23 Feb 2022
adage stating that organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure
+10
Strategic Defense Initiative — 114 books
first published 1975 added 15 Nov 2021
American missile defense system
+108
drop ship — 38 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
+32
colonial exploitation — 61 books
first published 1 Dec 1974
refers to the historical practice where colonial powers extracted natural resources and exploited indigenous populations for economic gain.
+55
Kenneth Arrow — 138 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
+132
night-watchman state — 18 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
minimal state
+12
school vouchers — 71 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
+65
The Nature of the Firm — 96 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
a paper wrote by Ronald Coase
+90
free-rider problem — 109 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 30 Dec 2023
consumption of goods & services without payment
+103
veil of ignorance — 77 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
album by Raised Fist
+71
Herbert Marcuse — 110 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
person
+104
Pareto efficiency — 79 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
+73
John Rawls — 169 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
+163
Ronald Coase — 160 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 20 Jan 2017
British economist and author (1910-2013)
+154
Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman — 10 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
+4
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer — 23 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 2 May 2024 book
+17
declining real wages — 89 books
first published 1974 added 30 Dec 2016
+83
Jacquard loom — 61 books
first published 1974
weaving loom controlled by punched cards
+55
working poor — 395 books
first published 1974
social class
+389
linked data — 62 books
first published 1974
a method of structuring data to enable interlinking and become more useful through semantic queries
+56
G4S — 136 books
first published 1974 added 26 Feb 2017
+130
discrete time — 65 books
first published 1974
+59
How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? — 9 books
first published 1974 added 6 Nov 2020
+3
Ivan Sutherland — 49 books
first published 1974 added 23 Aug 2023
+43
Seymour Hersh — 124 books
first published 1974 added 30 May 2021
American investigative journalist
person
+118
disinformation — 572 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive and manipulate
+566
card file — 50 books
first published 1974
+44
Gerard Salton — 3 books
first published 1974 added 27 Feb 2017
an American computer scientist who made significant contributions to the field of information retrieval and is often called the 'father of digital search'.
person
Howard Zinn — 90 books
first published 1974
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
+84
Y Combinator — 187 books
first published 1974
American startup accelerator
+181
housing justice — 19 books
first published 1974 added 12 Jul 2022
London based charity
+13
probability theory / Blaise Pascal / Pierre de Fermat — 35 books
first published 1974
+29
Parkinson's law — 57 books
first published 1974
adage that work expands to fill the time available
+51
Donald Knuth — 109 books
first published 1974 added 2 Mar 2017
+103
linear programming — 66 books
first published 1974
programming method to achieve the best outcome in a mathematical model
+60
public intellectual — 297 books
first published 1974 added 20 Sep 2023
+291
sorting algorithm — 74 books
first published 1974
algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order
+68