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2,714 concepts

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private property rights — 179 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 14 Jan 2024
language acquisition — 100 books
first published 1966 added 20 Aug 2023
process starting early in human life
Ken Kesey — 111 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024
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)
Merry Pranksters — 81 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024
group formed around American author Ken Kesey
Turing test — 226 books
first published 1966
test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human
traffic fines — 34 books
first published 1966 added 23 Jan 2017
financial penalties imposed for violations of traffic laws or regulations
Steven Pinker — 308 books
first published 1966
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
Margaret Mead — 185 books
first published 1966 added 30 Dec 2024
American anthropologist (1901—1978)
theory of mind — 210 books
first published 1966
speech recognition — 261 books
first published 1966
automatic conversion of spoken language into text
job automation — 363 books
first published 1966
urban sprawl — 335 books
first published 1966
Maxwell's demon — 10 books
first published 1966 added 24 Dec 2023
Peace of Westphalia — 88 books
first published 1966
peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
job satisfaction — 226 books
first published 1966
prisoner's dilemma — 54 books
first published 15 May 1965
canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory
RAND corporation — 527 books
first published 15 May 1965
heat death of the universe — 55 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
John von Neumann — 286 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath (1903–1957)
Bob Bemer — 4 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 19 Feb 2025
Maui Hawaii — 195 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
stochastic process — 80 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
mathematical object usually defined as a collection of random variables
Claude Shannon: information theory — 122 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
computer age — 308 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
classic study — 376 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2022
Searching for Interstellar Communications — 6 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
scientific article published in Nature
Bletchley Park — 170 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Oct 2023
Republic of Letters — 60 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
long-distance intellectual community
Suez canal 1869 — 196 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
Trinity test — 42 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Aug 2024
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
Honoré de Balzac — 65 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Charles Babbage — 221 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 14 Nov 2021
interchangeable parts — 137 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
components that are identical for practical purposes
Mathematical Theory of Communication — 81 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 24 Dec 2023
1948 article by Claude Shannon
Johannes Kepler — 148 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Oct 2020
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
Frederick Jackson Turner — 71 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 1 Apr 2025
American historian (1861-1932)
end-to-end encryption — 54 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Jul 2023
cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties
Alan Turing — 381 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
British mathematician, contributions to computer science and AI
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
positional goods — 22 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
book burning — 111 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 21 Dec 2024
photolithography — 36 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 27 Jan 2024
Louis Daguerre — 15 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
French photographer, artist and chemist and inventor of the Daguerrotype (1787-1851)
invention of the telegraph — 56 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
machine translation — 154 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
planned obsolescence — 110 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 9 May 2023
zero-sum game — 655 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
Norbert Wiener — 170 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 3 Jan 2017
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
Enigma machine — 75 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
Deng Xiaoping — 344 books
first published 1962
a Chinese politician who served as the leader of the Communist Party of China and was instrumental in modernising China
rent control — 240 books
first published 1962
road to serfdom — 175 books
first published 1962
low cost airline — 157 books
first published 1962 added 15 Oct 2020
airline with generally lower fares
The Chicago School — 192 books
first published 1962
education organization in Los Angeles, United States
liquidity trap — 76 books
first published 1962
economics concept
currency risk — 112 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
fear of failure — 257 books
first published 1962
index card — 348 books
first published 1962
card stock cut to a standard size, used for recording or storing small amounts of data
central bank independence — 206 books
first published 1962
mortgage debt — 227 books
first published 1962
Fractional reserve banking — 81 books
first published 1962
banking system where bank holds reserves equal to fraction of deposit liabilities
locking in a profit — 29 books
first published 1962
prudent man rule — 24 books
first published 1962 added 1 Jun 2022
Myron Scholes — 144 books
first published 1962 added 26 Apr 2017
Canadian economist
minimum wage unemployment — 100 books
first published 1962
Robert Metcalfe — 84 books
first published 1962 added 14 Feb 2017
land bank — 83 books
first published 1962 added 10 Aug 2023
diversification — 226 books
first published 1962
tacit knowledge — 160 books
first published 1962 added 1 Nov 2021
Black-Scholes formula — 101 books
first published 1962
a mathematical model used for calculating the theoretical value of European-style options
financial innovation — 373 books
first published 1962
credit crunch — 328 books
first published 1962
sudden reduction in the general availability of loans or credit or a sudden tightening of the conditions required to obtain a loan from banks
barriers to entry — 587 books
first published 1962
factors that make it difficult for new firms to enter a market
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
carried interest — 86 books
first published 1962
share of profits in an investment fund paid to the fund manager
collateralized debt obligation — 232 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.
market friction — 33 books
first published 1962
Carl Icahn — 118 books
first published 1962 added 27 May 2023
an American businessman known for his activities as an activist shareholder
asset-backed security — 142 books
first published 1962 added 9 Feb 2017
security with value derived from a commodity or asset
secular stagnation — 111 books
first published 1962
credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations — 151 books
first published 1962
The Design of Experiments — 17 books
first published 1962
John Snow's cholera map — 78 books
first published 1962
price discrimination — 84 books
first published 1962
pricing strategy of offering similar products at different prices according to buyers' willingness to pay
Commentariolus — 12 books
first published 1962
work by Copernicus
Bear Stearns — 405 books
first published 1962 added 25 Oct 2021
an investment bank that collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis
backtesting — 87 books
first published 1962
the process of testing a trading strategy or model on historical data
Right to Buy — 113 books
first published 1962 added 25 Feb 2017
financial engineering — 388 books
first published 1962 added 1 Nov 2021
application of technical methods, especially from mathematical finance and computational finance, in the practice of finance
moral hazard — 370 books
first published 1962
"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory" — 90 books
first published 1962 added 22 Aug 2023
flag carrier — 49 books
first published 1962 added 26 Oct 2021
experimental subject — 167 books
first published 1962
person who participates in human subject research by being the target of observation by researchers
risk/return — 144 books
first published 1962
invisible hand — 734 books
first published 1962
economic concept popularized by Adam Smith
floating exchange rates — 110 books
first published 1962
risk-adjusted returns — 116 books
first published 1962
Greenspan put — 63 books
first published 1962 added 11 Feb 2022
Monetary policy tool of the Federal Reserve