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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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creative destruction

his concept of gales of "creative destruction" that sweep through the economy. Torn asunder by the entrepreneurial utilization of technology, continual organizational innovation, and the rigors of competition, businesses rise and fall, driving the business cycle over time

—p.132 The Intellectual History of a Dangerous Idea, 1942-2012 (132) by Mark Blyth
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emetic

Austerity may be painful, but it is unavoidable since undergoing such emetic periods is the essence of capitalism's process of investment and discovery

—p.121 The Intellectual History of a Dangerous Idea, 1692-1942 (104) by Mark Blyth
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Maastricht Treaty

Paul Krugman saw trouble in the decade of recession and unemployment necessitated by the convergence criteria of the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, the precondition for adoption of the euro

—p.78 Europe--Too Big to Bail (51) by Mark Blyth
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stagflation

the economy of the mid-1970s seemed to trade in inflation with unemployment in a phenomenon called "stagflation", where wages/prices (inflation)and unemployment rose together

in an apparent contradiction of the Phillips curve, which many by this point took as the sine qua non of Keynesianism

—p.40 America: Too Big to Fail? (21) by Mark Blyth
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code is unstable

[...] More generally, code as expression and code as action never coincide fully. In terms of the software ontology explored here, code, the material that lies at the core of software, is unstable because it is both expression and action, neither of which are materially nor socially stable. In sayi…

—p.177 Cutting Code: Software and Sociality Conclusion (169) by Adrian Mackenzie