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baleful
(en)
(adjective) deadly or pernicious in influence / (adjective) foreboding or threatening evil
belie
(en)
(verb) to give a false impression of / (verb) to present an appearance not in agreement with / (verb) to show (something) to be false or wrong / (verb) to run counter to; contradict / (verb) disguise
cybernetics
(en)
(noun plural but singular in construction) the science of communication and control theory that is concerned especially with the comparative study of automatic control systems (as the nervous system and brain and mechanical-electrical communication systems)
Kuznets curve
(en)
the hypothesis that as an economy develops, market forces first increase and then decrease economic inequality. The hypothesis was first advanced by economist Simon Kuznets in the 1950s and '60s. Highly contested
lintel
(en)
(noun) a horizontal architectural member spanning and usually carrying the load above an opening
metanorm
(en)
a norm that requires people to punish transgressors of lower-level norms
multifarious
(en)
having many varied parts or aspects; multifaceted
obdurate
(en)
(adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing / (adjective) hardened in feelings / (adjective) resistant to persuasion or softening influences
rebound effect
(en)
in conservation or energy economics: the reduction in expected gains from new technologies that increase the efficiency of resource use, because of behavioral or other systemic responses (aka the Jevons Paradox; named after William Stanley Jevons, who studied the consumption of coal after steam engines were made more efficient in 1865)
Solow's paradox
(en)
aka the productivity paradox. defined as a perceived "discrepancy between measures of investment in information technology and measures of output at the national level"
a term for the loans provided by the IMF and the World Bank to countries that experienced economic crises, which come with strings attached: privatisation and deregulation, mainly (the conditions are also known as the Washington Consensus)