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2,703 concepts

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Scientific racism — 84 books
first published 1977 added 28 Jan 2017
misuse of the scientific method to justify racism
trickle-down economics — 206 books
first published 1977
technological determinism — 112 books
first published 1977 added 29 Sep 2022
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
music of the spheres — 49 books
first published 1977
guns versus butter model — 96 books
first published 1977 added 16 Oct 2022
macroeconomic relationship between defense spending and civilian welfare
estate planning — 112 books
first published 1977
process of planning for inheritance of property
Future Shock — 136 books
first published 1977 added 2 Nov 2021
Neil Armstrong — 310 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
information retrieval — 180 books
first published 1976
activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources
Gregor Mendel — 122 books
first published 1976 added 26 Nov 2021
Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
Alistair Cooke — 23 books
first published 1976
popular capitalism — 26 books
first published 1976 added 23 Feb 2017
Garrett Hardin — 126 books
first published 1976 added 25 Oct 2021
American ecologist (1915–2003)
Apollo 11 — 226 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
first Moon landing and fifth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program
Thomas L Friedman — 135 books
first published 1976
American journalist and author
Selfish Gene — 201 books
first published 1976 added 13 Oct 2023
a book by Richard Dawkins that popularized the gene-centric view of evolution
Fran Lebowitz — 17 books
first published 1976 added 22 Aug 2024
American author and public speaker (b. 1950)
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
telemarketer — 191 books
first published 1976
Necker cube — 28 books
first published 1976
ghettoisation — 131 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
urban decay — 113 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
Works Progress Administration — 168 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
high-speed rail — 267 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
scientific management — 242 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 14 Nov 2021
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
housing crisis — 319 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
Wikimedia disambiguation page
friendly fire — 184 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
attack on friendly forces misidentified as hostile ones
American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card — 47 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
urban planning — 510 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
the technical and political process of designing and regulating the use of land, resources, and infrastructure in cities.
Southern State Parkway — 9 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 20 Aug 2022
highway in New York
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — 50 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
large denomination — 55 books
first published 2 Jan 1975
Multics — 71 books
first published 1975 added 3 Jun 2023
operating system
Strategic Defense Initiative — 113 books
first published 1975 added 15 Nov 2021
American missile defense system
HyperCard — 37 books
first published 1975
hypermedia system for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers
drop ship — 37 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
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
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 — 71 books
first published 1975
mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan
Anton Chekhov — 58 books
first published 1975
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
no silver bullet — 21 books
first published 1975 added 30 Jun 2022
Ken Thompson — 71 books
first published 1975 added 24 Feb 2022
seminal paper — 208 books
first published 1975 added 17 Jul 2022
an academic paper that has a significant and lasting influence on its field
Boeing 747 — 240 books
first published 1975 added 26 Oct 2021
Tacoma Narrows Bridge — 22 books
first published 1975
thought leader — 346 books
first published 1975 added 11 Oct 2023
Occam's razor — 19 books
first published 1975
philosophical principle used to judge credibility of statements
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.
Kenneth Arrow — 137 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
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer — 22 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 2 May 2024
Ronald Coase — 158 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 20 Jan 2017
British economist and author (1910-2013)
veil of ignorance — 77 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
album by Raised Fist
Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman — 10 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
John Rawls — 167 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
free-rider problem — 109 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 30 Dec 2023
consumption of goods & services without payment
Pareto efficiency — 78 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 — 107 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
The Nature of the Firm — 95 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
a paper wrote by Ronald Coase
school vouchers — 69 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
card file — 50 books
first published 1974
sorting algorithm — 74 books
first published 1974
algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order
disinformation — 560 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive and manipulate
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.
Ralph Nader — 232 books
first published 1974
working poor — 324 books
first published 1974
social class
discrete time — 64 books
first published 1974
Donald Knuth — 92 books
first published 1974 added 2 Mar 2017
linear programming — 65 books
first published 1974
programming method to achieve the best outcome in a mathematical model
Howard Zinn — 88 books
first published 1974
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
zero day — 88 books
first published 1974
linked data — 62 books
first published 1974
a method of structuring data to enable interlinking and become more useful through semantic queries
G4S — 135 books
first published 1974 added 26 Feb 2017
public intellectual — 293 books
first published 1974 added 20 Sep 2023
How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? — 10 books
first published 1974 added 6 Nov 2020
Parkinson's law — 48 books
first published 1974
adage that work expands to fill the time available
quiet quiting — 7 books
first published 1974 added 6 Jan 2025
probability theory / Blaise Pascal / Pierre de Fermat — 35 books
first published 1974
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'.
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
Seymour Hersh — 121 books
first published 1974 added 30 May 2021
American investigative journalist
half of the world's population has never made a phone call — 14 books
first published 1974
activist lawyer — 26 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
lawyer advocating for social, economic, or political change
distributed generation — 73 books
first published 1974
decentralized energy generation from small energy sources
Jacquard loom — 61 books
first published 1974
weaving loom controlled by punched cards
Fermat's Last Theorem — 9 books
first published 1974
Y Combinator — 181 books
first published 1974
American startup accelerator
declining real wages — 79 books
first published 1974 added 30 Dec 2016
Markov chain — 58 books
first published 1974 added 27 Oct 2023
Ivan Sutherland — 47 books
first published 1974 added 23 Aug 2023
housing justice — 19 books
first published 1974 added 12 Jul 2022
London based charity
sexual politics — 96 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 3 Mar 2017
episode of Brothers & Sisters (S1 E12)
pocket calculator — 152 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 19 Dec 2023
Magellanic Cloud — 42 books
first published 27 Jun 1973
hydroponic farming — 27 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 5 Oct 2023
gravity well — 126 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 4 Feb 2017
fail fast — 102 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 27 Oct 2021
scientific article published on October 2013
do what you love — 106 books
first published 1973 added 10 Feb 2022
independent contractor — 259 books
first published 1973 added 25 Apr 2021
natural person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to another entity under a contract or verbal agreement.