edward: concepts

2,703 concepts

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urban renewal — 332 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay
indoor plumbing — 190 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 2 Jan 2017
The Death and Life of Great American Cities — 152 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
sidewalk ballet — 12 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 27 Dec 2023
Jane Jacobs — 232 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.
back-to-the-land — 194 books
first published 15 Sep 1959
a social movement encouraging migration from urban to rural areas
Rory Stewart — 30 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.
Etonian — 152 books
first published 15 Sep 1959
merchant ship
MITM: man-in-the-middle — 146 books
first published 15 Sep 1959 added 14 Oct 2017
three-masted sailing ship — 84 books
first published 1959 added 28 Sep 2023
painting by unknown artist, Poole Museum
always be closing — 40 books
first published 1959 added 15 Feb 2017
haute couture — 169 books
first published 1957
term used to describe the creation of exclusive, custom-fitted clothing
Eric Newby — 16 books
first published 1957 added 8 Apr 2025
jitney — 60 books
first published 1957
Northern Rock — 167 books
first published 1957
former British bank
fixed income — 415 books
first published 1957 added 9 Feb 2017
one-China policy — 23 books
first published 1956 added 24 Apr 2017
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen — 93 books
first published 1956 added 24 Jul 2021
Ida Tarbell — 67 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
affirmative action — 413 books
first published 1956
policies to improve opportunities for discriminated minority groups
pneumatic tube — 80 books
first published 1956 added 29 Dec 2021
a system that propels cylindrical containers through a network of tubes using compressed air or vacuum.
it's over 9,000 — 109 books
first published 1956 added 9 Jul 2023
military-industrial complex — 463 books
first published 1956 added 3 Nov 2021
concept in military and political science
Thorstein Veblen — 214 books
first published 1956
an American economist and sociologist, famous for introducing the term 'conspicuous consumption'
Vilfredo Pareto — 114 books
first published 1956 added 10 Aug 2017
desegregation — 264 books
first published 1956
the process of ending racial segregation in institutions such as schools and buses
long peace — 52 books
first published 1956 added 17 Jul 2017
absence of major wars following World War II
Asilomar — 70 books
first published 1956 added 11 Feb 2017
American ideology — 53 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
Joseph Schumpeter — 342 books
first published 1956
Austrian economist
Simon Kuznets — 136 books
first published 1956
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA — 48 books
first published 1956 added 11 Feb 2017
academic conference held in 1975
creative destruction — 489 books
first published 1956 added 1 Apr 2017
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — 180 books
first published 1955 added 8 Apr 2025
The World Is Flat — 165 books
first published 1955 added 30 Jan 2024
financial independence — 301 books
first published 1955
Mason jar — 135 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.
Charles Lindbergh — 225 books
first published 2 Jan 1953 added 15 Oct 2020
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Mercator projection — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1953
sugar pill — 67 books
first published 2 Jan 1953 added 6 Sep 2022
Robert Shiller — 241 books
first published 1949
American economist
stock buybacks — 120 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
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
Long Term Capital Management — 290 books
first published 1949
Ralph Waldo Emerson — 341 books
first published 1949
high-yield bond — 141 books
first published 1949 added 17 Aug 2024
sharing economy — 239 books
first published 1949
an economic system where assets or services are shared between individuals, often facilitated by a platform
Carter's malaise speech — 26 books
first published 1949 added 29 Oct 2023
the rule of 72 — 27 books
first published 1949 added 26 Apr 2017
business cycle — 598 books
first published 1949 added 18 Mar 2018
fluctuation in the degree of utilization of the production potential of an economy
transaction costs — 561 books
first published 1949
air freight — 113 books
first published 1949
transportation of goods via air, usually high-value items
corporate raider — 203 books
first published 1949 added 21 Feb 2017
Y2K — 226 books
first published 1949 added 15 Oct 2020
Steve Jobs — 988 books
first published 1949
Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis — 101 books
first published 1949
merger arbitrage — 46 books
first published 1949
stock trading strategy
money market fund — 255 books
first published 1949 added 12 Feb 2017
type of investment fund
accounting loophole / creative accounting — 125 books
first published 1949
manipulation of financial records for favourable company presentation
diversified portfolio — 241 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.
capital asset pricing model — 104 books
first published 1949
passive investing — 112 books
first published 1949
Michael Milken — 187 books
first published 1949 added 6 Feb 2022
American investor
shareholder value — 453 books
first published 1949
Isaac Newton — 689 books
first published 1949 added 28 Jan 2017
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
asset allocation — 210 books
first published 1949
Alan Greenspan — 549 books
first published 1949 added 11 Feb 2022
American economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman
John Bogle — 89 books
first published 1949 added 25 Oct 2021
buy low sell high — 80 books
first published 1949
2018 simulation video game developed by Red Fox Game Studios
index fund — 285 books
first published 1949
fund representing a specific index
low interest rates — 537 books
first published 1949 added 21 Sep 2022
survivorship bias — 93 books
first published 1949 added 18 Feb 2017
South Sea Bubble — 169 books
first published 1949
dogs of the Dow — 13 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
stock investment strategy based on Dow Jones Industrial index
AOL-Time Warner — 142 books
first published 1949 added 23 Oct 2022
former American multinational media conglomerate
Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky — 249 books
first published 1949
risk tolerance — 390 books
first published 1949
the degree of variability in investment returns that an individual is willing to endure
Richard Thaler — 241 books
first published 1949
intangible asset — 183 books
first published 1949 added 9 Aug 2017
asset that lacks physical substance and usually is very hard to evaluate
corporate governance — 580 books
first published 1949
market bubble — 256 books
first published 1949
economic phenomenon of very high prices driven by speculation
tulip mania — 95 books
first published 1949
17th-century economic bubble in the Netherlands
Vanguard fund — 130 books
first published 1949
VA Linux — 15 books
first published 1949
hiring and firing — 298 books
first published 1949
stocks for the long run — 72 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
1994 book by Jeremy Siegel
3Com Palm IPO — 6 books
first published 1949 added 27 Apr 2017
junk bonds — 344 books
first published 1949 added 26 Feb 2022
financial product
Andrei Shleifer — 110 books
first published 1949
a Russian-American economist and a professor at Harvard University, known for his work in the field of finance
Yom Kippur War — 205 books
first published 1946
October 1973 war between Egypt and Syria at one side and Israel on the other side
Eratosthenes — 82 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
source of truth — 69 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 9 Apr 2017
a term used in data management to indicate the primary, authoritative source of a particular piece of data.
George Santayana — 87 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 21 Jun 2017
Charlemagne — 313 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 8 Dec 2024
Byzantine Empire — 199 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 7 Oct 2023
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
"High Line" AND "New York" — 97 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 27 Aug 2024
liberation theology — 75 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 11 Mar 2017
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
Plato's cave — 75 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 24 Oct 2022
a philosophical allegory by Plato describing people who perceive only the shadows of reality, used to explore themes of knowledge, reality, and perception.
Thales of Miletus — 43 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 19 Feb 2018