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2,734 concepts

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impulse control — 170 books
first published 1967
the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
+164
meta-analysis — 487 books
first published 1967
statistical method that summarizes data from multiple sources
+481
unbiased observer — 29 books
first published 1967
+23
delayed gratification — 234 books
first published 1967
psychological concept describing a process that the subject undergoes when the subject resists the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later reward
+228
East Village — 206 books
first published 15 Aug 1966
+200
Ford paid five dollars a day — 18 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 10 Jan 2017
+12
falling living standards — 129 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 29 Dec 2016
+123
private property rights — 181 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 14 Jan 2024
+175
data science — 467 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 20 Nov 2021
an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data.
+461
War on Poverty — 223 books
first published 15 Aug 1966
unofficial name for legislation first introduced by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964
+217
Margaret Mead — 188 books
first published 1966 added 30 Dec 2024
American anthropologist (1901—1978)
person
+182
job automation — 371 books
first published 1966
+365
traffic fines — 34 books
first published 1966 added 23 Jan 2017
financial penalties imposed for violations of traffic laws or regulations
+28
job satisfaction — 230 books
first published 1966
+224
Turing test — 226 books
first published 1966
test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human
+220
Ken Kesey — 113 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024 person
+107
Merry Pranksters — 82 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024
group formed around American author Ken Kesey
+76
language acquisition — 100 books
first published 1966 added 20 Aug 2023
process starting early in human life
+94
The last Blockbuster video rental store is in Bend, Oregon — 322 books
first published 1966 added 5 Mar 2023
the final remaining location of the once-ubiquitous video rental chain
+316
theory of mind — 212 books
first published 1966
+206
Peace of Westphalia — 91 books
first published 1966
peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
+85
Maxwell's demon — 31 books
first published 1966 added 24 Dec 2023
+25
speech recognition — 266 books
first published 1966
automatic conversion of spoken language into text
+260
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
urban sprawl — 342 books
first published 1966
+336
Steven Pinker — 311 books
first published 1966
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
person
+305
RAND corporation — 532 books
first published 15 May 1965
+526
prisoner's dilemma — 191 books
first published 15 May 1965
canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory
+185
Johannes Kepler — 152 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Oct 2020
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
person
+146
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
zero-sum game — 656 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
+650
Bob Bemer — 4 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 19 Feb 2025 person
Turing machine — 172 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
+166
Enigma machine — 79 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
+73
Norbert Wiener — 171 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 3 Jan 2017
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
+165
positional goods — 23 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+17
Maui Hawaii — 192 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+186
John von Neumann — 289 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath (1903–1957)
person
+283
Alan Turing — 390 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 7 Oct 2023
British mathematician, contributions to computer science and AI
+384
Charles Babbage — 222 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 14 Nov 2021 person
+216
invention of the telegraph — 56 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+50
Bletchley Park — 175 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Oct 2023
+169
machine translation — 158 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
+152
Louis Daguerre — 17 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
French photographer, artist and chemist and inventor of the Daguerrotype (1787-1851)
+11
stochastic process — 80 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
mathematical object usually defined as a collection of random variables
+74
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
photolithography — 36 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 27 Jan 2024
+30
Trinity test — 42 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 15 Aug 2024
+36
Suez canal 1869 — 196 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2023
+190
interchangeable parts — 142 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
components that are identical for practical purposes
+136
Republic of Letters — 62 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
long-distance intellectual community
+56
Suez crisis 1956 — 197 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 28 Oct 2021 event
+191
Searching for Interstellar Communications — 7 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
scientific article published in Nature
+1
planned obsolescence — 111 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 9 May 2023
+105
Mathematical Theory of Communication — 82 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 24 Dec 2023
1948 article by Claude Shannon
+76
classic study — 378 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 20 Aug 2022
+372
Frederick Jackson Turner — 71 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 1 Apr 2025
American historian (1861-1932)
person
+65
end-to-end encryption — 58 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 5 Jul 2023
cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties
+52
Claude Shannon: information theory — 125 books
first published 1 Feb 1963
+119
book burning — 112 books
first published 1 Feb 1963 added 21 Dec 2024
+106
central bank independence — 194 books
first published 1962
+188
invisible hand — 739 books
first published 1962
economic concept popularized by Adam Smith
economics
+733
John Snow's cholera map — 79 books
first published 1962
+73
market friction — 33 books
first published 1962
+27
credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations — 176 books
first published 1962
+170
Deng Xiaoping — 346 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
+340
road to serfdom — 179 books
first published 1962
+173
index card — 352 books
first published 1962
card stock cut to a standard size, used for recording or storing small amounts of data
+346
BRICs — 335 books
first published 1962
+329
locking in a profit — 28 books
first published 1962
+22
"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory" — 91 books
first published 1962 added 22 Aug 2023
+85
moral hazard — 373 books
first published 1962
+367
financial engineering — 396 books
first published 1962 added 1 Nov 2021
application of technical methods, especially from mathematical finance and computational finance, in the practice of finance
+390
Lao Tzu — 115 books
first published 1962 added 2 Jan 2017
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
+109
Carl Icahn — 117 books
first published 1962 added 27 May 2023
an American businessman known for his activities as an activist shareholder
+111
asset-backed security — 143 books
first published 1962 added 9 Feb 2017
security with value derived from a commodity or asset
+137
financial innovation — 378 books
first published 1962
+372
secular stagnation — 112 books
first published 1962
+106
land bank — 87 books
first published 1962 added 10 Aug 2023
+81
Myron Scholes — 144 books
first published 1962 added 26 Apr 2017
Canadian economist
+138
The Design of Experiments — 18 books
first published 1962
+12
diversification — 227 books
first published 1962
+221
Right to Buy — 115 books
first published 1962 added 25 Feb 2017
+109
minimum wage unemployment — 86 books
first published 1962
+80
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
death of newspapers — 121 books
first published 1962 added 20 Jan 2017
a term that refers to the decline of newspapers due to the rise of digital media
+115
risk free rate — 126 books
first published 1962 added 19 Oct 2020
+120
fear of failure — 258 books
first published 1962
+252
p-value — 117 books
first published 1962
a statistic used in hypothesis testing to indicate the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis
+111
Bear Stearns — 412 books
first published 1962 added 25 Oct 2021
an investment bank that collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis
+406
floating exchange rates — 108 books
first published 1962
+102
carried interest — 89 books
first published 1962
share of profits in an investment fund paid to the fund manager
+83
collateralized debt obligation — 271 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.
+265
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.
person
+67
light touch regulation — 194 books
first published 1962 added 12 Feb 2017
+188
price discrimination — 86 books
first published 1962
pricing strategy of offering similar products at different prices according to buyers' willingness to pay
+80
experimental subject — 168 books
first published 1962
person who participates in human subject research by being the target of observation by researchers
+162
Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions — 115 books
first published 1962
+109
Greenspan put — 62 books
first published 1962 added 11 Feb 2022
Monetary policy tool of the Federal Reserve
+56
mortgage debt — 228 books
first published 1962
+222