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2,714 concepts

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Black-Scholes formula — 101 books
first published 1962
a mathematical model used for calculating the theoretical value of European-style options
low cost airline — 157 books
first published 1962 added 15 Oct 2020
airline with generally lower fares
floating exchange rates — 110 books
first published 1962
risk/return — 144 books
first published 1962
two and twenty — 90 books
first published 1962 added 29 Oct 2020
Victor Gruen — 27 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
Austrian architect (1903-1980)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities — 152 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
company town — 224 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 18 Apr 2023
indoor plumbing — 190 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 2 Jan 2017
Golden Gate Park — 117 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
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.
Lewis Mumford — 209 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 27 Sep 2023
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
sidewalk ballet — 12 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 27 Dec 2023
work culture — 208 books
first published 1 Nov 1961 added 22 Aug 2022
urban renewal — 332 books
first published 1 Nov 1961
program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay
Etonian — 152 books
first published 15 Sep 1959
merchant ship
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.
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
jitney — 60 books
first published 1957
Eric Newby — 16 books
first published 1957 added 8 Apr 2025
fixed income — 415 books
first published 1957 added 9 Feb 2017
haute couture — 169 books
first published 1957
term used to describe the creation of exclusive, custom-fitted clothing
Northern Rock — 167 books
first published 1957
former British bank
one-China policy — 23 books
first published 1956 added 24 Apr 2017
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA — 48 books
first published 1956 added 11 Feb 2017
academic conference held in 1975
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen — 93 books
first published 1956 added 24 Jul 2021
Vilfredo Pareto — 114 books
first published 1956 added 10 Aug 2017
long peace — 52 books
first published 1956 added 17 Jul 2017
absence of major wars following World War II
creative destruction — 489 books
first published 1956 added 1 Apr 2017
Asilomar — 70 books
first published 1956 added 11 Feb 2017
Simon Kuznets — 136 books
first published 1956
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
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.
desegregation — 264 books
first published 1956
the process of ending racial segregation in institutions such as schools and buses
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
Thorstein Veblen — 214 books
first published 1956
an American economist and sociologist, famous for introducing the term 'conspicuous consumption'
military-industrial complex — 463 books
first published 1956 added 3 Nov 2021
concept in military and political science
it's over 9,000 — 109 books
first published 1956 added 9 Jul 2023
affirmative action — 413 books
first published 1956
policies to improve opportunities for discriminated minority groups
Joseph Schumpeter — 342 books
first published 1956
Austrian economist
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
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.
financial independence — 301 books
first published 1955
Mercator projection — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1953
sugar pill — 67 books
first published 2 Jan 1953 added 6 Sep 2022
Charles Lindbergh — 225 books
first published 2 Jan 1953 added 15 Oct 2020
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
money market fund — 255 books
first published 1949 added 12 Feb 2017
type of investment fund
capital asset pricing model — 104 books
first published 1949
this too shall pass — 42 books
first published 1949 added 12 Jan 2026
John Bogle — 89 books
first published 1949 added 25 Oct 2021
Steve Jobs — 988 books
first published 1949
corporate raider — 203 books
first published 1949 added 21 Feb 2017
Carter's malaise speech — 26 books
first published 1949 added 29 Oct 2023
Isaac Newton — 689 books
first published 1949 added 28 Jan 2017
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
low interest rates — 537 books
first published 1949 added 21 Sep 2022
South Sea Bubble — 169 books
first published 1949
air freight — 113 books
first published 1949
transportation of goods via air, usually high-value items
tulip mania — 95 books
first published 1949
17th-century economic bubble in the Netherlands
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
VA Linux — 15 books
first published 1949
Vanguard fund — 130 books
first published 1949
sharing economy — 239 books
first published 1949
an economic system where assets or services are shared between individuals, often facilitated by a platform
3Com Palm IPO — 6 books
first published 1949 added 27 Apr 2017
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
business cycle — 598 books
first published 1949 added 18 Mar 2018
fluctuation in the degree of utilization of the production potential of an economy
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.
transaction costs — 561 books
first published 1949
survivorship bias — 93 books
first published 1949 added 18 Feb 2017
index fund — 285 books
first published 1949
fund representing a specific index
asset allocation — 210 books
first published 1949
stocks for the long run — 72 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
1994 book by Jeremy Siegel
Long Term Capital Management — 290 books
first published 1949
hiring and firing — 298 books
first published 1949
Everybody Ought to Be Rich — 15 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
intangible asset — 183 books
first published 1949 added 9 Aug 2017
asset that lacks physical substance and usually is very hard to evaluate
junk bonds — 344 books
first published 1949 added 26 Feb 2022
financial product
Michael Milken — 187 books
first published 1949 added 6 Feb 2022
American investor
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
Alan Greenspan — 549 books
first published 1949 added 11 Feb 2022
American economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman
Robert Shiller — 241 books
first published 1949
American economist
corporate governance — 580 books
first published 1949
passive investing — 112 books
first published 1949
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.
AOL-Time Warner — 142 books
first published 1949 added 23 Oct 2022
former American multinational media conglomerate
buy low sell high — 80 books
first published 1949
2018 simulation video game developed by Red Fox Game Studios
Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky — 249 books
first published 1949
shareholder value — 453 books
first published 1949
Y2K — 226 books
first published 1949 added 15 Oct 2020
dogs of the Dow — 13 books
first published 1949 added 10 Mar 2018
stock investment strategy based on Dow Jones Industrial index
high-yield bond — 141 books
first published 1949 added 17 Aug 2024
Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis — 101 books
first published 1949
market bubble — 256 books
first published 1949
economic phenomenon of very high prices driven by speculation
accounting loophole / creative accounting — 125 books
first published 1949
manipulation of financial records for favourable company presentation
Ralph Waldo Emerson — 341 books
first published 1949
the rule of 72 — 27 books
first published 1949 added 26 Apr 2017