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2,723 concepts

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survivorship bias — 93 books
first published 1949 added 18 Feb 2017
+87
Long Term Capital Management — 291 books
first published 1949
+285
Michael Milken — 187 books
first published 1949 added 6 Feb 2022
American investor
+181
business cycle — 597 books
first published 1949 added 18 Mar 2018
fluctuation in the degree of utilization of the production potential of an economy
finance
+591
Richard Thaler — 243 books
first published 1949 person
+237
Yom Kippur War — 205 books
first published 1946
October 1973 war between Egypt and Syria at one side and Israel on the other side
+199
Byzantine Empire — 199 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 7 Oct 2023
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
+193
Mahatma Gandhi — 350 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
an Indian political and spiritual leader who played a key role in India's struggle for independence
person politician
+344
Thales and the olive presses — 23 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 19 Feb 2018
+17
obscurantism — 65 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 26 Mar 2025
Aiming to hide information or insight
+59
source of truth — 70 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.
+64
Charlemagne — 315 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 8 Dec 2024 person
+309
George Santayana — 87 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 21 Jun 2017 person
+81
William of Occam — 26 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
+20
Thales of Miletus — 43 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 19 Feb 2018
+37
liberation theology — 76 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 11 Mar 2017
Christian theological approach emphasizing the liberation of the oppressed
+70
Eratosthenes — 83 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
+77
Occam's razor — 158 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
philosophical principle used to judge credibility of statements
+152
Plato's cave — 248 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.
+242
"High Line" AND "New York" — 97 books
first published 21 Mar 1945 added 27 Aug 2024
+91
Georg Cantor — 46 books
first published 21 Mar 1945
+40
defense in depth — 56 books
first published 1 Mar 1943
+50
Norman Mailer — 176 books
first published 1 Mar 1943 added 1 Apr 2017
American writer (1923–2007)
+170
Easter island — 212 books
first published 1943 added 4 Jul 2022
Polynesian island of Chile
+206
collective bargaining — 429 books
first published 1943
+423
the scientific method — 508 books
first published 1943
mathematical and experimental techniques employed in the natural sciences; more specifically, techniques used in the construction and testing of scientific hypotheses
+502
transatlantic cable — 91 books
first published 1943 added 22 Nov 2023
+85
power loom — 136 books
first published 1943 added 12 Jun 2025
mechanised loom powered by a line shaft
+130
Louis Blériot — 24 books
first published 1942
French aviator, inventor and engineer
+18
Beryl Markham — 11 books
first published 1942 added 6 Nov 2022
a British-born Kenyan aviator and author
+5
three-masted sailing ship — 255 books
first published 1939 added 28 Sep 2023
painting by unknown artist, Poole Museum
+249
earthrise OR "earth rise" — 87 books
first published 1939 added 26 Jun 2024 space
+81
invention of writing — 88 books
first published 1939
+82
greater fool theory — 71 books
first published 1937 added 14 Feb 2024
+65
Kula ring — 63 books
first published 1937 added 30 Dec 2016
+57
place-making — 319 books
first published 1937
+313
animal electricity — 26 books
first published 1937 added 6 Apr 2018
+20
out of africa — 241 books
first published 1937
+235
failed state — 314 books
first published 1935
a political entity that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly
+308
invention of gunpowder — 31 books
first published 1935
+25
invention of agriculture — 70 books
first published 1935
transition from hunter gatherer to settled peoples
+64
profit motive — 469 books
first published 1935
the intent to achieve monetary gain in a project, transaction, or material endeavor
+463
plutocrats — 394 books
first published 1935
book by Chrystia Freeland
+388
Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness — 24 books
first published 1935
an essay by Bertrand Russell advocating for a reduction in the workweek to improve human happiness
+18
computer age — 309 books
first published 14 Jun 1927 tech
+303
buy the rumour, sell the news — 10 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Jan 2021
+4
Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987 — 105 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.
+99
traveling salesman — 199 books
first published 14 May 1923
NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization
+193
tontine — 31 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 5 Oct 2023
+25
gentleman farmer — 71 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 22 Mar 2022
Landowner and hobby farmer
+65
pattern recognition — 480 books
first published 14 May 1923
+474
book value — 291 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 29 May 2022
in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
+285
Ponzi scheme — 409 books
first published 14 May 1923
a type of financial fraud where returns are paid to earlier investors using the capital of newer investors, rather than from profit.
+403
fiat currency — 142 books
first published 14 May 1923
currency established as money by government regulation or law
+136
reserve currency — 232 books
first published 14 May 1923
foreign currency held by monetary authorities as part of forex reserves
+226
refrigerator car — 55 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 2 Jan 2017
a refrigerated railway car, traditionally used to transport perishable goods
+49
Money Trust — 49 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Jan 2025
financial concept
+43
cotton gin — 124 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 20 Nov 2021
machine that separates cotton fibers from seeds
+118
business process — 353 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
+347
activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor — 153 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 19 May 2017
individual or group buying shares to influence company management
+147
Glass-Steagall Act — 258 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 5 Oct 2023
+252
behavioural economics — 377 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 3 Oct 2023
an approach to economics that accounts for psychological, social, and emotional factors
+371
new economy — 817 books
first published 14 May 1923
economy that is based on digital computing technologies
tech
+811
clean water — 791 books
first published 14 May 1923
+785
Credit Default Swap — 345 books
first published 14 May 1923
financial swap agreement in case of default
finance
+339
technology bubble — 80 books
first published 14 May 1923
a market situation characterised by inflated valuations for tech companies, often irrespective of their profitability
+74
short selling — 259 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.
+253
Honoré de Balzac — 69 books
first published 14 May 1923
+63
yellow journalism — 59 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 5 Mar 2017
a type of journalism that presents little or no well-researched news and instead uses sensationalism to attract readers
+53
short squeeze — 51 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Nov 2022
+45
margin call — 192 books
first published 14 May 1923
+186
Monroe Doctrine — 127 books
first published 14 May 1923
+121
buy and hold — 241 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 9 Mar 2018
investment strategy
+235
bank run — 341 books
first published 14 May 1923
a sudden withdrawal of deposits from a bank due to fears of insolvency
+335
buttonwood tree — 36 books
first published 14 May 1923
+30
Hernando de Soto — 96 books
first published 14 May 1923
either a 16th-century Spanish explorer and conquistador or a modern Peruvian economist known for his work on property rights.
+90
price stability — 272 books
first published 14 May 1923
economic term
+266
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator — 41 books
first published 14 May 1923 added 30 Jul 2022
book by Edwin Lefèvre
+35
Louis Pasteur — 200 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
+194
James Watt: steam engine — 214 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+208
8-hour work day — 232 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+226
laissez-faire capitalism — 143 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
+137
Thomas Malthus — 216 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 person
+210
Winter of Discontent — 76 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
+70
full employment — 588 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
economics
+582
Khartoum Gordon — 40 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+34
Murano, Venice glass — 71 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+65
cuban missile crisis — 369 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+363
Corn Laws — 144 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
19th-century trade restrictions on imported food and grain in the United Kingdom
+138
means of production — 517 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+511
bread and circuses — 90 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 22 Jun 2023
+84
Upton Sinclair — 210 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist (1878-1968)
+204
upwardly mobile — 644 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+638
union organizing — 355 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+349
Berlin Wall — 886 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
a wall dividing East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989
history
+880
wage slave — 97 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+91
hallucination problem — 332 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 4 Oct 2023
+326
Nelson Mandela — 396 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 15 Oct 2020 person
+390
Owen Jones — 46 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 11 Jun 2024 person
+40
machine readable — 247 books
first published 1913 added 21 Sep 2023
+241