Peter B. Teeley, who as the sharp-penned press secretary for George H.W. Bush during his 1980 presidential campaign coined the term “voodoo economics” to describe the tax and spending plans of the candidate’s rival at the time, Ronald Reagan, died Friday in Washington. He was 84. His...
Even though he was the first to describe in detail capitalist production and the profit motive of business owners, it wasn'tAdam Smithwho coined the term "entrepreneur." One type of person strangely overlooked in Smith's free-market masterpiece, "The Wealth of Nations," is the entrepreneur. ...
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Who coined the term geopolitics? Coining Terms: Some terms start being used naturally, while others are created by certain authoritative figures in certain industries. This was the case with the concept of geopolitics, which puts together two separate disciplines. ...
Veblen critiqued the consumption habits of the wealthy and questioned their values. He coined the terms “conspicuous waste” and “pecuniary emulation” (striving to meet or exceed someone else’s financial status). He also founded the school of institutional economics. Veblen lived from 1857 to...
James Gifford’s life changed when he hopped aboard a flight from Sydney in 2003. The team he joined in Geneva framed the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment, created the concept of ‘ESG’ and changed the world.
W.E.B. Dubois coined the term “talented tenth” at the turn of the twentieth century. Between 1865 and 1900, the majority of Black Americans received industrial education. Dubois believed that 10 percent of the most outstanding Black Americans should pursue higher education and that “talented ...
He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, and intertwingularity (in Literary Machines), and teledildonics. According to a 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano ...
Moreover, the phenomenon of patchwriting is not unique to Chinese learners of English, as Shi (2006) demonstrated, nor to second-language learners, given that Howard (1999) originally coined the term patchwriting from analyses of English-dominant students writing at colleges in the US Hyland (200...
Schumpeter served as minister of finance in the Austrian government, the president of a private bank, and a professor, before being forced to emigrate, due to the rise of the Nazi Party. The economist coined the term "creative destruction" to describe how the old is being constantly replaced...