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mechanical reaper — 33 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 6 Dec 2023
+27
Fairness Doctrine — 76 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 12 Jan 2024
former US broadcasting policy
+70
active measures — 150 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 15 Apr 2017
covert actions to influence events, often linked to Russian intelligence
+144
equal pay for equal work — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+50
very high income — 62 books
first published 2 Jan 1977
+56
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
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
W. E. B. Du Bois — 151 books
first published 2 Jan 1977 added 26 Nov 2021
+145
music of the spheres — 51 books
first published 1977
+45
estate planning — 112 books
first published 1977
process of planning for inheritance of property
+106
European colonialism — 318 books
first published 1977
settlement, conquest, and colonization by Europeans
history
+312
twin studies — 97 books
first published 1977 added 2 May 2018
+91
technological determinism — 113 books
first published 1977 added 29 Sep 2022
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
+107
Future Shock — 136 books
first published 1977 added 2 Nov 2021
+130
commoditize — 343 books
first published 1977 added 22 May 2017
+337
guns versus butter model — 88 books
first published 1977 added 16 Oct 2022
macroeconomic relationship between defense spending and civilian welfare
+82
correlation coefficient — 125 books
first published 1977
+119
Scientific racism — 86 books
first published 1977 added 28 Jan 2017
misuse of the scientific method to justify racism
+80
placebo effect — 208 books
first published 1977
+202
Drosophila — 98 books
first published 1977
genus of insects
+92
dematerialisation — 154 books
first published 1977
+148
trickle-down economics — 207 books
first published 1977
+201
information retrieval — 181 books
first published 1976
activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources
+175
open borders — 231 books
first published 1976
+225
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
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
Garrett Hardin — 125 books
first published 1976 added 25 Oct 2021
American ecologist (1915–2003)
+119
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
Alistair Cooke — 23 books
first published 1976
+17
Thomas L Friedman — 136 books
first published 1976
American journalist and author
person
+130
popular capitalism — 26 books
first published 1976 added 23 Feb 2017 capitalism
+20
Necker cube — 29 books
first published 1976
+23
Fran Lebowitz — 17 books
first published 1976 added 22 Aug 2024
American author and public speaker (b. 1950)
person
+11
telemarketer — 191 books
first published 1976
+185
Neil Armstrong — 314 books
first published 1976 added 5 Jun 2022
+308
Gregor Mendel — 125 books
first published 1976 added 26 Nov 2021
Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
+119
urban decay — 115 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+109
high-speed rail — 271 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
+265
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — 51 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+45
urban planning — 518 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
the technical and political process of designing and regulating the use of land, resources, and infrastructure in cities.
+512
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
American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card — 47 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+41
ghettoisation — 130 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+124
scientific management — 245 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 14 Nov 2021
+239
friendly fire — 192 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
attack on friendly forces misidentified as hostile ones
+186
Works Progress Administration — 168 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
+162
housing crisis — 325 books
first published 14 Apr 1975
Wikimedia disambiguation page
+319
Southern State Parkway — 9 books
first published 14 Apr 1975 added 20 Aug 2022
highway in New York
+3
large denomination — 56 books
first published 2 Jan 1975
+50
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
thought leader — 351 books
first published 1975 added 11 Oct 2023
+345
Ken Thompson — 71 books
first published 1975 added 24 Feb 2022
+65
Strategic Defense Initiative — 114 books
first published 1975 added 15 Nov 2021
American missile defense system
+108
Tacoma Narrows Bridge — 22 books
first published 1975
+16
Anton Chekhov — 58 books
first published 1975
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
+52
no silver bullet — 21 books
first published 1975 added 30 Jun 2022
+15
HyperCard — 38 books
first published 1975
hypermedia system for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers
+32
Multics — 56 books
first published 1975 added 3 Jun 2023
operating system
+50
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
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
Boeing 747 — 243 books
first published 1975 added 26 Oct 2021
+237
Khyber Pass — 73 books
first published 1975
mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan
+67
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
colonial exploitation — 60 books
first published 1 Dec 1974
refers to the historical practice where colonial powers extracted natural resources and exploited indigenous populations for economic gain.
+54
John Rawls — 169 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
+163
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
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
Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman — 10 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
+4
night-watchman state — 18 books
first published 15 Mar 1974
minimal state
+12
free-rider problem — 109 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 30 Dec 2023
consumption of goods & services without payment
+103
Ronald Coase — 160 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 20 Jan 2017
British economist and author (1910-2013)
+154
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
veil of ignorance — 77 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 19 Nov 2023
album by Raised Fist
+71
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer — 23 books
first published 15 Mar 1974 added 2 May 2024 book
+17
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
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
sorting algorithm — 74 books
first published 1974
algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order
+68
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
quiet quiting — 13 books
first published 1974 added 6 Jan 2025
+7
discrete time — 65 books
first published 1974
+59
public intellectual — 297 books
first published 1974 added 20 Sep 2023
+291
Fermat's Last Theorem — 82 books
first published 1974
+76
working poor — 395 books
first published 1974
social class
+389
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
disinformation — 571 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive and manipulate
+565
Gödel, Escher, Bach — 81 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.
+75
zero day — 88 books
first published 1974
+82
Y Combinator — 187 books
first published 1974
American startup accelerator
+181
Seymour Hersh — 123 books
first published 1974 added 30 May 2021
American investigative journalist
person
+117
distributed generation — 49 books
first published 1974
decentralized energy generation from small energy sources
+43
linked data — 62 books
first published 1974
a method of structuring data to enable interlinking and become more useful through semantic queries
+56
activist lawyer — 27 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
lawyer advocating for social, economic, or political change
+21
Howard Zinn — 89 books
first published 1974
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
+83
Ralph Nader — 232 books
first published 1974 person
+226
card file — 50 books
first published 1974
+44
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