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2,557 concepts

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Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987 — 111 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 22 Mar 2022
refers to October 19, 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed, shedding a huge value in a very short time.
pattern recognition — 461 books
first published 14 May 1923
business process — 341 books
first published 14 May 1923
collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers
refrigerator car — 50 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 2 Jan 2017
a refrigerated railway car, traditionally used to transport perishable goods
short selling — 253 books
first published 14 May 1923
an investment strategy where an investor borrows shares to sell them, aiming to buy them back later at a lower price.
price stability — 265 books
first published 14 May 1923
economic term
gentleman farmer — 64 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 22 Mar 2022
Landowner and hobby farmer
activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor — 143 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 19 May 2017
individual or group buying shares to influence company management
fiat currency — 133 books
first published 14 May 1923
currency established as money by government regulation or law
cotton gin — 117 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 20 Nov 2021
machine that separates cotton fibers from seeds
behavioural economics — 370 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 3 Oct 2023
an approach to economics that accounts for psychological, social, and emotional factors
buy and hold — 236 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Mar 2018
investment strategy
buy the rumour, sell the news — 10 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Jan 2021
Khartoum Gordon — 64 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
union organizing — 308 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
Berlin Wall — 848 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
a wall dividing East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989
death from overwork — 61 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 29 Apr 2022
laissez-faire capitalism — 140 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
Nelson Mandela — 380 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 15 Oct 2020
Thomas Malthus — 210 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
wage slave — 96 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
upwardly mobile — 337 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
women in the workforce — 433 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
women who perform some kind of job
Upton Sinclair — 202 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist (1878-1968)
Louis Pasteur — 190 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
cuban missile crisis — 369 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
bread and circuses — 81 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 22 Jun 2023
Winter of Discontent — 70 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
the winter of 1978–79 in the United Kingdom, during which there were widespread strikes by public sector trade unions
full employment — 570 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
a situation in which everyone who wants to work at the going wage rate for their type of labour is employed
Owen Jones — 44 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 11 Jun 2024
James Watt: steam engine — 204 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
Corn Laws — 138 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
19th-century trade restrictions on imported food and grain in the United Kingdom
Murano, Venice glass — 68 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
means of production — 500 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
Cornelius Vanderbilt — 133 books
first published 1913 added 5 Oct 2022
machine readable — 244 books
first published 1913 added 21 Sep 2023
transcontinental railway — 210 books
first published 1913
contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders
trade route — 674 books
first published 1897
Fellow of the Royal Society — 171 books
first published 1897
Donner party — 37 books
first published 1873
Columbine — 156 books
first published 1873
school shooting at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States on 20 April 1999
Open Library — 8 books
first published 1873 added 22 Aug 2023
online project for book data by the Internet Archive
Internet Archive — 201 books
first published 1873
a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to an extensive collection of digital content
the market place — 207 books
first published 1532
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith — 559 books
first published 1532
special economic zone — 153 books
first published 15 Jun 201
COVID-19 — 522 books
first published 15 Jun 201 added 15 Oct 2020
a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
feminist movement — 202 books
first published 15 Jun 201
series of political campaigns for reforms on feminist issues
colonial rule — 360 books
first published 15 Jun 201
scientific article published in Nature
post-work — 138 books
first published 15 Jun 201 added 15 Oct 2020
self-driving car — 426 books
first published 15 Jun 201
a car that is capable of operating without human intervention by using various sensors and machine learning algorithms.
popular electronics — 52 books
first published 15 Jun 201
an American magazine that was published from 1954 to 1985, covering electronic projects, kits, and new products
illegal immigration — 497 books
first published 15 Jun 201
migration of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country
5G — 48 books
first published 15 Jun 201 added 27 Oct 2023
the fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, known for high speed and low latency
information security — 217 books
first published 15 Jun 201 added 22 Feb 2022
protecting information by mitigating information risks
coronavirus — 398 books
first published 15 Jun 201 added 15 Oct 2020
anti-communist — 432 books
first published 15 Jun 201
opposition to communism