a fortiori (la)

used to express a conclusion for which there is stronger evidence than for a previously accepted one

accession (en)

a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy

ad libitum (la)

"at one's pleasure"; more formal term for ad-lib

adjudication (en)

(noun) a judicial decision or sentence / (noun) a decree in bankruptcy / (verb) to settle judicially / (verb) to act as judge

aegis (en)

(noun, Greek mythology) protective mantle of Zeus given to Athena

anomie (en)

lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

anomie (en)

lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

Ariadne’s thread (en)

(from Greek mythology) the solving of a problem with multiple apparent means of proceeding through an exhaustive application of logic to all available routes

Baumol effect (en)

(aka Baumol's cost disease) rise of salaries in jobs that have experienced no increase of labor productivity, in response to rising salaries in other jobs that have experienced the labor productivity growth

beneficence (en)

the doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity

Bundesrepublik (de)

from Bundesrepublik Deutschland, which was used during the Cold War to refer to West Germany

camarilla (en)

(noun) a group of unofficial often secret and scheming advisers / (noun) cabal

Chinese wall (en)

a term borrowed from the financial industry to describe a barrier within an organisation to prevent communication that could lead to conflicts of interest

clientelist (en)

relating to clientism (a social order which depends on relations of patronage)

common pool (en)

a type of good consisting of a resource system for which it's hard but not impossible to restrict (e.g. an irrigation system or fishing grounds); differs from pure public goods in that they face problems of congestion or overuse, because they are subtractable; consists of a core resource (e.g., water or fish) which defines the stock variable, while providing a limited quantity of extractable fringe units, which defines the flow variable

constituency (en)

in the sense of an electorate, or a body of customers, supporters, etc. In the context of a state, can be described (with reference to Hegel) as its ‘moral root’; in that case, the debt state would then have two such roots

court of equity (en)

in Medieval English legal theory, an alternative court to the common law "courts of justice" focused on social cohesion rather than pure justice; could overturn the judgments of common law courts

creative destruction (en)

the incessant product and process innovation mechanism by which new production units replace outdated ones; coined by Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 as "the essential fact about capitalism"

curative (en)

able to cure disease

deus ex machina (la)

(originally Greek) "god from the machine"; derives from the gods introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman dramas; something introduced suddenly and unexpectedly that provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty

dialectic (en)

a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments

dialectic (en)

a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments

discursive (en)

(adj) digressing from subject to subject

ecclesia militans (la)

means Church Militant; a branch of the Christian Church which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin, the devil, and "the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places"

equanimity (en)

calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation