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2,618 concepts

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Fractional reserve banking — 80 books
first published 1962
banking system where bank holds reserves equal to fraction of deposit liabilities
prudent man rule — 23 books
first published 1962 added 1 Jun 2022
tacit knowledge — 154 books
first published 1962 added 1 Nov 2021
Lao Tzu — 109 books
first published 1962 added 2 Jan 2017
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
market friction — 32 books
first published 1962
Arthur Eddington — 73 books
first published 1962
an English astrophysicist best known for his work on the theory of relativity and the Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars.
"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory" — 87 books
first published 1962 added 22 Aug 2023
barriers to entry — 569 books
first published 1962
factors that make it difficult for new firms to enter a market
moral hazard — 362 books
first published 1962
Deng Xiaoping — 324 books
first published 1962
a Chinese politician who served as the leader of the Communist Party of China and was instrumental in modernising China
minimum wage unemployment — 97 books
first published 1962
risk free rate — 126 books
first published 1962 added 19 Oct 2020
liquidity trap — 76 books
first published 1962
economics concept
carried interest — 82 books
first published 1962
share of profits in an investment fund paid to the fund manager
price discrimination — 82 books
first published 1962
pricing strategy of offering similar products at different prices according to buyers' willingness to pay
Golden Gate Park — 116 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
company town — 215 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 18 Apr 2023
work culture — 199 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 22 Aug 2022
The Death and Life of Great American Cities — 148 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
Victor Gruen — 27 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
Austrian architect (1903-1980)
urban renewal — 315 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay
sidewalk ballet — 11 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 27 Dec 2023
indoor plumbing — 185 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 2 Jan 2017
Lewis Mumford — 204 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 27 Sep 2023
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
Jane Jacobs — 225 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
an American-Canadian journalist and activist best known for her influence on urban planning and her opposition to the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in New York.
Etonian — 150 books
first published 15 Sep 1959
merchant ship
Rory Stewart — 28 books
first published 15 Sep 1959 added 27 Oct 2023
a British politician, diplomat, and writer who has served as a Member of Parliament and as Minister of State for International Development.
MITM: man-in-the-middle — 140 books
first published 15 Sep 1959 added 14 Oct 2017
back-to-the-land — 188 books
first published 15 Sep 1959
a social movement encouraging migration from urban to rural areas
always be closing — 39 books
first published 1959 added 15 Feb 2017
three-masted sailing ship — 79 books
first published 1959 added 28 Sep 2023
painting by unknown artist, Poole Museum
Northern Rock — 165 books
first published 1957
former British bank
jitney — 58 books
first published 1957
haute couture — 164 books
first published 1957
term used to describe the creation of exclusive, custom-fitted clothing
fixed income — 407 books
first published 1957 added 9 Feb 2017
Joseph Schumpeter — 337 books
first published 1956
Austrian economist
military-industrial complex — 446 books
first published 1956 added 3 Nov 2021
concept in military and political science
one-China policy — 20 books
first published 1956 added 24 Apr 2017
creative destruction — 475 books
first published 1956 added 1 Apr 2017
Asilomar — 69 books
first published 1956 added 11 Feb 2017
pneumatic tube — 78 books
first published 1956 added 29 Dec 2021
a system that propels cylindrical containers through a network of tubes using compressed air or vacuum.
desegregation — 250 books
first published 1956
the process of ending racial segregation in institutions such as schools and buses
Thorstein Veblen — 210 books
first published 1956
an American economist and sociologist, famous for introducing the term 'conspicuous consumption'
American ideology — 52 books
first published 1956 added 28 Nov 2017
the set of beliefs and values such as individualism, freedom, and capitalism that are generally thought to be held by the American populace
Vilfredo Pareto — 108 books
first published 1956 added 10 Aug 2017
it's over 9,000 — 107 books
first published 1956 added 9 Jul 2023
Simon Kuznets — 130 books
first published 1956
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen — 89 books
first published 1956 added 24 Jul 2021
long peace — 50 books
first published 1956 added 17 Jul 2017
absence of major wars following World War II
affirmative action — 404 books
first published 1956
policies to improve opportunities for discriminated minority groups
Ida Tarbell — 64 books
first published 1956 added 23 May 2021
an American journalist, known for her pioneering investigative reporting that led to the breakup of the Standard Oil Company
The World Is Flat — 163 books
first published 1955 added 30 Jan 2024
Mason jar — 134 books
first published 1955
a molded glass jar used primarily for home canning and preserving food, but has gained popularity for various crafts and applications.
financial independence — 291 books
first published 1955
sugar pill — 66 books
first published 2 Jan 1953 added 6 Sep 2022
Charles Lindbergh — 224 books
first published 2 Jan 1953 added 15 Oct 2020
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Mercator projection — 42 books
first published 2 Jan 1953
risk tolerance — 381 books
first published 1949
the degree of variability in investment returns that an individual is willing to endure
shareholder value — 433 books
first published 1949
sharing economy — 233 books
first published 1949
an economic system where assets or services are shared between individuals, often facilitated by a platform
survivorship bias — 92 books
first published 1949 added 18 Feb 2017
passive investing — 109 books
first published 1949
Richard Thaler — 236 books
first published 1949
Isaac Newton — 677 books
first published 1949 added 28 Jan 2017
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
Carter's malaise speech — 24 books
first published 1949 added 29 Oct 2023
Ralph Waldo Emerson — 333 books
first published 1949
junk bonds — 336 books
first published 1949 added 26 Feb 2022
financial product
low interest rates — 525 books
first published 1949 added 21 Sep 2022
air freight — 108 books
first published 1949
transportation of goods via air, usually high-value items
money market fund — 250 books
first published 1949 added 12 Feb 2017
type of investment fund
business cycle — 588 books
first published 1949 added 18 Mar 2018
fluctuation in the degree of utilization of the production potential of an economy
diversified portfolio — 238 books
first published 1949
an investment strategy that allocates assets across a variety of different types of investments such as stocks, bonds, and real estate to reduce risk.
Andrei Shleifer — 106 books
first published 1949
a Russian-American economist and a professor at Harvard University, known for his work in the field of finance
transaction costs — 556 books
first published 1949
intangible asset — 179 books
first published 1949 added 9 Aug 2017
asset that lacks physical substance and usually is very hard to evaluate
Steve Jobs — 956 books
first published 1949
stock buybacks — 115 books
first published 1949 added 29 Dec 2021
the repurchasing of shares by a company to reduce the number of shares on the market, often to increase shareholder value.
Everybody Ought to Be Rich — 15 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
merger arbitrage — 46 books
first published 1949
stock trading strategy
stocks for the long run — 71 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
1994 book by Jeremy Siegel
Y2K — 221 books
first published 1949 added 15 Oct 2020
Alan Greenspan — 540 books
first published 1949 added 11 Feb 2022
American economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman
John Bogle — 88 books
first published 1949 added 25 Oct 2021
South Sea Bubble — 169 books
first published 1949
tulip mania — 94 books
first published 1949
17th-century economic bubble in the Netherlands
corporate raider — 193 books
first published 1949 added 21 Feb 2017
buy low sell high — 79 books
first published 1949
2018 simulation video game developed by Red Fox Game Studios
AOL-Time Warner — 137 books
first published 1949 added 23 Oct 2022
former American multinational media conglomerate
Robert Shiller — 237 books
first published 1949
American economist
hiring and firing — 292 books
first published 1949
3Com Palm IPO — 6 books
first published 1949 added 27 Apr 2017
VA Linux — 15 books
first published 1949
Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis — 100 books
first published 1949
Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky — 241 books
first published 1949
capital asset pricing model — 104 books
first published 1949
index fund — 276 books
first published 1949
fund representing a specific index
dogs of the Dow — 13 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
stock investment strategy based on Dow Jones Industrial index
Long Term Capital Management — 288 books
first published 1949
Yogi Berra — 151 books
first published 1949 added 17 Jan 2017
an American baseball catcher, coach, and manager known for his humorous and paradoxical quotes
accounting loophole / creative accounting — 119 books
first published 1949
manipulation of financial records for favourable company presentation