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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
638 thinkers
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638 thinkers
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Mary Douglas
Anthropologist of risk, purity, and how institutions think through classification and blame.
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Mary Douglas
Anthropologist of risk, purity, and how institutions think through classification and blame.
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Mary Parker Follett
Organizational thinker of power-with, integration, and creative conflict in group life.
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Mary Parker Follett
Organizational thinker of power-with, integration, and creative conflict in group life.
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Mary V. Thompson
Mount Vernon historian documenting Washington, slavery, and the enslaved community on the estate.
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Mary V. Thompson
Mount Vernon historian documenting Washington, slavery, and the enslaved community on the estate.
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Mathew D. McCubbins
Political scientist of institutions, delegation, and citizen learning under information constraints.
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Mathew D. McCubbins
Political scientist of institutions, delegation, and citizen learning under information constraints.
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Matthew Andrews
Development scholars of capability traps, problem-driven iteration, and institutional reform in weak states.
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Matthew Andrews
Development scholars of capability traps, problem-driven iteration, and institutional reform in weak states.
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Matthew Skelton
Authors on team topologies—organizing software teams for flow, cognitive load, and interaction modes.
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Matthew Skelton
Authors on team topologies—organizing software teams for flow, cognitive load, and interaction modes.
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Maureen Farrell
Journalists documenting corporate scandal, incentive distortion, and executive accountability failures.
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Maureen Farrell
Journalists documenting corporate scandal, incentive distortion, and executive accountability failures.
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Maurice A Finocchiaro
Philosopher-historian compiling documentary history of the Galileo affair.
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Maurice A Finocchiaro
Philosopher-historian compiling documentary history of the Galileo affair.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenologist of embodied perception, habit, and being-in-the-world before objectifying thought.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenologist of embodied perception, habit, and being-in-the-world before objectifying thought.
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Max Weber
Sociologist of bureaucracy, authority types, rationalization, and the iron cage of modern institutions.
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Max Weber
Sociologist of bureaucracy, authority types, rationalization, and the iron cage of modern institutions.
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Maxwell E. McCombs
Communication scholars of agenda-setting—media telling people what to think about, not what to think.
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Maxwell E. McCombs
Communication scholars of agenda-setting—media telling people what to think about, not what to think.
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Megha Srivastava
Computer science researcher on secure coding practices and risks introduced by AI-assisted software development.
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Megha Srivastava
Computer science researcher on secure coding practices and risks introduced by AI-assisted software development.
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Michael C. Jensen
Economists of agency theory, shareholder primacy, and corporate governance as contracting problem.
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Michael C. Jensen
Economists of agency theory, shareholder primacy, and corporate governance as contracting problem.
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Michael E Porter
Strategist of competitive advantage, value chains, and how firms position capability within industry structure.
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Michael E Porter
Strategist of competitive advantage, value chains, and how firms position capability within industry structure.
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Michael Eric Dyson
Cultural critic reclaiming a fuller, more conflicted Martin Luther King Jr. from pious reduction.
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Michael Eric Dyson
Cultural critic reclaiming a fuller, more conflicted Martin Luther King Jr. from pious reduction.
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Michael J. de la Merced
Business reporter covering activist investors and PepsiCo's public resistance to break-up pressure.
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Michael J. de la Merced
Business reporter covering activist investors and PepsiCo's public resistance to break-up pressure.
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Michael J. Puett
Scholar of early Chinese sacrifice, cosmology, and practices of becoming like a god.
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Michael J. Puett
Scholar of early Chinese sacrifice, cosmology, and practices of becoming like a god.
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Michael K. Honey
Labor historian of the Memphis sanitation strike and King's final campaign for economic dignity.
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Michael K. Honey
Labor historian of the Memphis sanitation strike and King's final campaign for economic dignity.
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Michael Lewis
Author of Moneyball, the narrative that made undercounted baseball value a public argument about measurement and bias.
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Michael Lewis
Author of Moneyball, the narrative that made undercounted baseball value a public argument about measurement and bias.
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Michael Lipsky
Political scientist of street-level bureaucracy—how frontline workers effectively make policy.
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Michael Lipsky
Political scientist of street-level bureaucracy—how frontline workers effectively make policy.
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Michael Marot
Associated Press sportswriter covering Andrew Luck's abrupt retirement announcement.
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Michael Marot
Associated Press sportswriter covering Andrew Luck's abrupt retirement announcement.
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Michael P. Leiter
Researchers of burnout, emotional exhaustion, and organizational conditions that erode care work.
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Michael P. Leiter
Researchers of burnout, emotional exhaustion, and organizational conditions that erode care work.
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Michael Penfold
Political scientists of Venezuelan authoritarianism, oil states, and democratic backsliding.
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Michael Penfold
Political scientists of Venezuelan authoritarianism, oil states, and democratic backsliding.
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Michael Scherer
Washington Post journalist covering national politics and co-author on Donald Trump and attacks on truth in public life.
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Michael Scherer
Washington Post journalist covering national politics and co-author on Donald Trump and attacks on truth in public life.