As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Goizueta Business School, the business librarians thought it might be fun to explore the evolution of business terminology between 1919 and 2019. So each month we will post a blog identifying business words and concepts that were captured in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the decades that GBS has been in operation. Here is our second entry, business-speak from 1929-1938!
The Economics of QWERTY: History, Theory, and Policy. HC79 .T4 L535 2002
1929 Anti-racketeering / Blue-collar / Debt service / Delist / Price-earnings ratio / QWERTY
1930 C-note / Globalization
1931 Break-even / Covariance / Inflationary spiral / Workforce
1932 Mutual fund / Pricey / Producer goods / Restructure / Write-down
1933 Big-ticket / Checkout
1934 Last-in first-out / Negative feedback / Positive feedback / Shopping cart
1935 Brand-name / Multicultural / Penny-pinching / Unemployment compensation / Value-added tax
1936 Hidden tax / Net-zero
1937 Fair-trade agreement / Fax / Globalize
1938 Deficit spending / On-the-job / Postrecession