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2,723 concepts

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job automation — 364 books
first published 1966
+358
Ken Kesey — 112 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024 person
+106
Margaret Mead — 185 books
first published 1966 added 30 Dec 2024
American anthropologist (1901—1978)
person
+179
Steven Pinker — 309 books
first published 1966
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
person
+303
Merry Pranksters — 82 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024
group formed around American author Ken Kesey
+76
job satisfaction — 226 books
first published 1966
+220
speech recognition — 261 books
first published 1966
automatic conversion of spoken language into text
+255
traffic fines — 34 books
first published 1966 added 23 Jan 2017
financial penalties imposed for violations of traffic laws or regulations
+28
language acquisition — 100 books
first published 1966 added 20 Aug 2023
process starting early in human life
+94
urban sprawl — 336 books
first published 1966
+330
systems thinking — 217 books
first published 1966 added 9 May 2023
based on systems theory (broadly applicable concepts and principles, as opposed to concepts and principles applicable to one domain of knowledge; distinguishes, dynamic or active systems and static or passive systems)
+211
Turing test — 226 books
first published 1966
test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human
+220
theory of mind — 211 books
first published 1966
+205
Maxwell's demon — 31 books
first published 1966 added 24 Dec 2023
+25
The last Blockbuster video rental store is in Bend, Oregon — 318 books
first published 1966 added 5 Mar 2023
the final remaining location of the once-ubiquitous video rental chain
+312
Peace of Westphalia — 91 books
first published 1966
peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
+85
RAND corporation — 528 books
first published 15 May 1965
+522
prisoner's dilemma — 189 books
first published 15 May 1965
canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory
+183
stochastic process — 80 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
mathematical object usually defined as a collection of random variables
+74
classic study — 377 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2022
+371
universal Turing machine — 61 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 24 Dec 2023
turing machine that can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine on arbitrary input by reading both the description of the machine to be simulated as well as the input thereof from its own tape
+55
Bob Bemer — 4 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 19 Feb 2025 person
Mathematical Theory of Communication — 81 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 24 Dec 2023
1948 article by Claude Shannon
+75
end-to-end encryption — 56 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Jul 2023
cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties
+50
Alan Turing — 383 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
British mathematician, contributions to computer science and AI
+377
planned obsolescence — 110 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 9 May 2023
+104
Norbert Wiener — 170 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 3 Jan 2017
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
+164
Suez crisis 1956 — 197 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 28 Oct 2021 event
+191
Suez canal 1869 — 193 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
+187
book burning — 111 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 21 Dec 2024
+105
Frederick Jackson Turner — 71 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 1 Apr 2025
American historian (1861-1932)
person
+65
machine translation — 156 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
+150
Louis Daguerre — 16 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
French photographer, artist and chemist and inventor of the Daguerrotype (1787-1851)
+10
Charles Babbage — 221 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 14 Nov 2021 person
+215
photolithography — 36 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 27 Jan 2024
+30
interchangeable parts — 139 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
components that are identical for practical purposes
+133
zero-sum game — 653 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 18 Feb 2017
mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant's gain or loss of utility is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the utility of the other participants
+647
Enigma machine — 76 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
+70
Maui Hawaii — 191 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+185
Turing machine — 169 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
abstract computation model; mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules
+163
positional goods — 22 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+16
Johannes Kepler — 150 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Oct 2020
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
person
+144
Republic of Letters — 61 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
long-distance intellectual community
+55
heat death of the universe — 50 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Nov 2021
the idea that the universe will eventually reach a state of entropy from which it cannot recover
+44
invention of the telegraph — 56 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+50
Trinity test — 42 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Aug 2024
+36
Bletchley Park — 171 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Oct 2023
+165
Searching for Interstellar Communications — 6 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
scientific article published in Nature
John von Neumann — 286 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath (1903–1957)
person
+280
Claude Shannon: information theory — 122 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+116
Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions — 115 books
first published 1962
+109
Deng Xiaoping — 342 books
first published 1962
a Chinese politician who served as the leader of the Communist Party of China and was instrumental in modernising China
person
+336
road to serfdom — 176 books
first published 1962
+170
The Design of Experiments — 17 books
first published 1962
+11
index card — 349 books
first published 1962
card stock cut to a standard size, used for recording or storing small amounts of data
+343
BRICs — 330 books
first published 1962
+324
locking in a profit — 28 books
first published 1962
+22
credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations — 175 books
first published 1962
+169
market friction — 33 books
first published 1962
+27
John Snow's cholera map — 79 books
first published 1962
+73
invisible hand — 733 books
first published 1962
economic concept popularized by Adam Smith
economics
+727
Lao Tzu — 115 books
first published 1962 added 2 Jan 2017
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
+109
central bank independence — 191 books
first published 1962
+185
secular stagnation — 112 books
first published 1962
+106
financial innovation — 375 books
first published 1962
+369
carried interest — 87 books
first published 1962
share of profits in an investment fund paid to the fund manager
+81
death of newspapers — 120 books
first published 1962 added 20 Jan 2017
a term that refers to the decline of newspapers due to the rise of digital media
+114
land bank — 84 books
first published 1962 added 10 Aug 2023
+78
floating exchange rates — 108 books
first published 1962
+102
Myron Scholes — 144 books
first published 1962 added 26 Apr 2017
Canadian economist
+138
"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory" — 90 books
first published 1962 added 22 Aug 2023
+84
moral hazard — 372 books
first published 1962
+366
collateralized debt obligation — 269 books
first published 1962
a type of structured asset-backed security whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed-income underlying assets.
+263
financial engineering — 392 books
first published 1962 added 1 Nov 2021
application of technical methods, especially from mathematical finance and computational finance, in the practice of finance
+386
light touch regulation — 191 books
first published 1962 added 12 Feb 2017
+185
asset-backed security — 142 books
first published 1962 added 9 Feb 2017
security with value derived from a commodity or asset
+136
Carl Icahn — 117 books
first published 1962 added 27 May 2023
an American businessman known for his activities as an activist shareholder
+111
diversification — 226 books
first published 1962
+220
Right to Buy — 115 books
first published 1962 added 25 Feb 2017
+109
minimum wage unemployment — 85 books
first published 1962
+79
currency risk — 113 books
first published 1962 added 11 Feb 2022
a financial risk that exists when a financial transaction is denominated in a currency other than the domestic currency
+107
Greenspan put — 62 books
first published 1962 added 11 Feb 2022
Monetary policy tool of the Federal Reserve
+56
mortgage debt — 227 books
first published 1962
+221
prudent man rule — 24 books
first published 1962 added 1 Jun 2022
+18
zero-coupon bond — 72 books
first published 1962
a debt security that doesn't make periodic interest payments and is issued at a discount to its face value
+66
p-value — 116 books
first published 1962
a statistic used in hypothesis testing to indicate the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis
+110
Bear Stearns — 408 books
first published 1962 added 25 Oct 2021
an investment bank that collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis
+402
risk free rate — 126 books
first published 1962 added 19 Oct 2020
+120
Zeno's paradox — 46 books
first published 1962
+40
price discrimination — 85 books
first published 1962
pricing strategy of offering similar products at different prices according to buyers' willingness to pay
+79
barriers to entry — 589 books
first published 1962
factors that make it difficult for new firms to enter a market
+583
experimental subject — 168 books
first published 1962
person who participates in human subject research by being the target of observation by researchers
+162
low cost airline — 157 books
first published 1962 added 15 Oct 2020
airline with generally lower fares
+151
Fractional reserve banking — 81 books
first published 1962
banking system where bank holds reserves equal to fraction of deposit liabilities
+75
Robert Metcalfe — 84 books
first published 1962 added 14 Feb 2017 person
+78
liquidity trap — 76 books
first published 1962
economics concept
+70
Commentariolus — 12 books
first published 1962
work by Copernicus
+6
rent control — 239 books
first published 1962 politics
+233
fear of failure — 257 books
first published 1962
+251
two and twenty — 88 books
first published 1962 added 29 Oct 2020
+82