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halation
(en)
(noun) the spreading of light beyond its proper boundaries in a developed photographic image / (noun) a bright ring that sometimes surrounds a bright object on a television screen
harelipped
(en)
(pejorative, often metaphorical) having a cleft lip
harrow
(en)
(noun) a cultivating implement set with spikes, spring teeth, or disks and used primarily for pulverizing and smoothing the soil / (verb) to cultivate with a harrow / (verb) torment, vex; pillage, plunder
Hartz reforms
(en)
a set of recommendations submitted by a committee on reforms to the German labour market in 2002; named after Peter Hartz (head of the committee); goal: to reduce unemployment
haruspicy
(en)
the art or practice of divination (ancient Rome)
Hayekian
(en)
pertaining to the economic theories of Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian and British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism
Hays code
(en)
aka Motion Picture Production Code; the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most US films from 1930 to 1968 (think profanity, drugs, sedition, miscegenation, etc)
hebetude
(en)
(noun) lethargy dullness
Hebraic
(en)
of Hebrew or the Hebrews
hecatomb
(en)
(in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen OR an extensive loss of life for some cause
a general equilibrium mathematical model of international trade, developed by Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin at the Stockholm School of Economics; countries will export products that use their abundant and cheap factor(s) of production and import products that use the countries' scarce factor(s)
hedonic price index
(en)
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)
hedonic treadmill
(en)
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
Hegel's bondsman
(en)
referring to a passage titled "Lordship and Bondage" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, which describes the master-slave dialectic
Hegelian
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or characteristic of Hegel, his philosophy, or his dialectic method / (noun) a follower of Hegel; an adherent of Hegelianism
related to "cultural hegemony" in Marxist philosophy (when the ruling class imposes their own worldview on the culture of a society)
hegemony
(en)
(noun) preponderant influence or authority over others; domination / (noun) the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group
hegira
(en)
(noun) a journey especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation; exodus; from the migration or journey of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622
helicopter money
(en)
a tool of unconventional monetary policy that has been proposed as an alternative to quantitative easing when interest rates are close to zero and the economy remains weak or enters recession; popularised by Milton Friedman in the form of dropping money on the ground (from a helicopter), though he didn't intend it as an actual policy
heliotropism
(en)
(noun) phototropism in which sunlight is the orienting stimulus
hellaciously
(en)
very great, bad, or overwhelming
hellion
(en)
(noun) a troublesome or mischievous person
helots
(en)
a subjugated population group that formed the main population of Laconia and Messenia, the territory controlled by Sparta (in Ancient Greece)
hematopoiesis
(en)
(noun) the formation of blood or of blood cells in the living body
Henri Bergson
(en)
a French philosopher (1859-1941), influential especially in the first half of the 20th century and after WWII in continental philosophy; known for his influential arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality