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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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ate (grk)

(Greek tragedy) foolishness or madness

(aka the first-digit law) in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading significant digit is likely to be small

capital stock is increasing at the same rate as the labour force and the depreciation rate, thus the capital per worker ratio remains constant; The economy will expand in terms of aggregate output, but productivity per worker will remain constant

(verb) to utter or send out with denunciation / (verb) to send forth censures or invectives / (verb) express vehement protest

a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time (for comparing GDP between countries)

any price index which uses information from hedonic regression, which describes how product price could be explained by the product's characteristics (e.g., improvements in quality)

also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes

(The Glorious Thirty) the thirty years from 1945 to 1975 in France, during which the economy grew rapidly

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