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2,723 concepts

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dematerialisation — 153 books
first published 1977
+147
Future Shock — 136 books
first published 1977 added 2 Nov 2021
+130
Scientific racism — 84 books
first published 1977 added 28 Jan 2017
misuse of the scientific method to justify racism
+78
trickle-down economics — 206 books
first published 1977
+200
guns versus butter model — 88 books
first published 1977 added 16 Oct 2022
macroeconomic relationship between defense spending and civilian welfare
+82
music of the spheres — 50 books
first published 1977
+44
placebo effect — 205 books
first published 1977
+199
commoditize — 340 books
first published 1977 added 22 May 2017
+334
correlation coefficient — 125 books
first published 1977
+119
Drosophila — 96 books
first published 1977
genus of insects
+90
estate planning — 112 books
first published 1977
process of planning for inheritance of property
+106
twin studies — 97 books
first published 1977 added 2 May 2018
+91
technological determinism — 112 books
first published 1977 added 29 Sep 2022
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
+106
European colonialism — 315 books
first published 1977
settlement, conquest, and colonization by Europeans
history
+309
Apollo 11 — 227 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
first Moon landing and fifth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program
+221
Neil Armstrong — 311 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
+305
Gregor Mendel — 123 books
first published 1976 added 26 Nov 2021
Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
+117
Garrett Hardin — 125 books
first published 1976 added 25 Oct 2021
American ecologist (1915–2003)
+119
open borders — 229 books
first published 1976
+223
telemarketer — 190 books
first published 1976
+184
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
Thomas L Friedman — 135 books
first published 1976
American journalist and author
person
+129
Fran Lebowitz — 17 books
first published 1976 added 22 Aug 2024
American author and public speaker (b. 1950)
person
+11
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
information retrieval — 181 books
first published 1976
activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources
+175
popular capitalism — 26 books
first published 1976 added 23 Feb 2017
+20
Necker cube — 28 books
first published 1976
+22
Alistair Cooke — 23 books
first published 1976
+17
urban decay — 113 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+107
scientific management — 242 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 14 Nov 2021
+236
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — 50 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+44
American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card — 47 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+41
Works Progress Administration — 167 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+161
high-speed rail — 270 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
+264
urban planning — 514 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
the technical and political process of designing and regulating the use of land, resources, and infrastructure in cities.
+508
housing crisis — 324 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
Wikimedia disambiguation page
+318
friendly fire — 192 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
attack on friendly forces misidentified as hostile ones
+186
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
Southern State Parkway — 9 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 20 Aug 2022
highway in New York
+3
ghettoisation — 129 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+123
large denomination — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1975
+50
HyperCard — 37 books
first published 1975
hypermedia system for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers
+31
Boeing 747 — 241 books
first published 1975 added 26 Oct 2021
+235
Anton Chekhov — 58 books
first published 1975
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
+52
seminal paper — 210 books
first published 1975 added 17 Jul 2022
an academic paper that has a significant and lasting influence on its field
+204
Multics — 56 books
first published 1975 added 3 Jun 2023
operating system
+50
no silver bullet — 21 books
first published 1975 added 30 Jun 2022
+15
Strategic Defense Initiative — 113 books
first published 1975 added 15 Nov 2021
American missile defense system
+107
Khyber Pass — 71 books
first published 1975
mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan
+65
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
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
software factory — 20 books
first published 1975 added 19 Feb 2025
software development process applying manufacturing techniques and principles to to mimic the benefits of traditional manufacturing
+14
Tacoma Narrows Bridge — 22 books
first published 1975
+16
Ken Thompson — 71 books
first published 1975 added 24 Feb 2022
+65
thought leader — 349 books
first published 1975 added 11 Oct 2023
+343
colonial exploitation — 58 books
first published 1 Dec 1974
refers to the historical practice where colonial powers extracted natural resources and exploited indigenous populations for economic gain.
+52
Ronald Coase — 158 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 20 Jan 2017
British economist and author (1910-2013)
+152
Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman — 10 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
+4
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
The Nature of the Firm — 95 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
a paper wrote by Ronald Coase
+89
night-watchman state — 18 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
minimal state
+12
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
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
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer — 22 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 2 May 2024 book
+16
Herbert Marcuse — 109 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
+103
John Rawls — 168 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
+162
school vouchers — 70 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
+64
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
+3
sorting algorithm — 74 books
first published 1974
algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order
+68
quiet quiting — 12 books
first published 1974 added 6 Jan 2025
+6
Ralph Nader — 232 books
first published 1974 person
+226
housing justice — 19 books
first published 1974 added 12 Jul 2022
London based charity
+13
Parkinson's law — 57 books
first published 1974
adage that work expands to fill the time available
+51
linear programming — 65 books
first published 1974
programming method to achieve the best outcome in a mathematical model
+59
declining real wages — 89 books
first published 1974 added 30 Dec 2016
+83
Y Combinator — 184 books
first published 1974
American startup accelerator
+178
card file — 50 books
first published 1974
+44
G4S — 136 books
first published 1974 added 26 Feb 2017
+130
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
zero day — 88 books
first published 1974
+82
activist lawyer — 26 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
lawyer advocating for social, economic, or political change
+20
Markov chain — 58 books
first published 1974 added 27 Oct 2023
+52
Donald Knuth — 109 books
first published 1974 added 2 Mar 2017
+103
distributed generation — 49 books
first published 1974
decentralized energy generation from small energy sources
+43
Ivan Sutherland — 48 books
first published 1974 added 23 Aug 2023
+42
Fermat's Last Theorem — 81 books
first published 1974
+75
probability theory / Blaise Pascal / Pierre de Fermat — 35 books
first published 1974
+29
Seymour Hersh — 122 books
first published 1974 added 30 May 2021
American investigative journalist
person
+116
disinformation — 563 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive and manipulate
+557
discrete time — 64 books
first published 1974
+58
Jacquard loom — 61 books
first published 1974
weaving loom controlled by punched cards
+55
working poor — 393 books
first published 1974
social class
+387
How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? — 9 books
first published 1974 added 6 Nov 2020
+3
Gödel, Escher, Bach — 80 books
first published 1974
a Pulitzer-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores the connections between the works of mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
+74
Howard Zinn — 88 books
first published 1974
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
+82
public intellectual — 294 books
first published 1974 added 20 Sep 2023
+288
linked data — 62 books
first published 1974
a method of structuring data to enable interlinking and become more useful through semantic queries
+56
pocket calculator — 152 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 19 Dec 2023
+146
sexual politics — 96 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 3 Mar 2017
episode of Brothers & Sisters (S1 E12)
+90