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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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Michael Schoenhals
Historians of Mao's China drawing on archival sources for everyday life under radical campaigns.
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Michael Schoenhals
Historians of Mao's China drawing on archival sources for everyday life under radical campaigns.
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Michael T Nygard
Software architect of release it!, stability patterns, and production operations for living systems.
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Michael T Nygard
Software architect of release it!, stability patterns, and production operations for living systems.
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Michael Uhl-Bien
Leadership scholars of followership theory and how followers shape organizational authority.
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Michael Uhl-Bien
Leadership scholars of followership theory and how followers shape organizational authority.
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Michael Walzer
Political theorist of just war, complex equality, and thick versus thin moral language.
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Michael Walzer
Political theorist of just war, complex equality, and thick versus thin moral language.
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Michael Woolcock
Development scholars of capability traps, problem-driven iteration, and institutional reform in weak states.
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Michael Woolcock
Development scholars of capability traps, problem-driven iteration, and institutional reform in weak states.
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Michel Foucault
Historian and philosopher of power, knowledge, and institutions—discipline, surveillance, and how subjects are formed.
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Michel Foucault
Historian and philosopher of power, knowledge, and institutions—discipline, surveillance, and how subjects are formed.
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Mike Beedle
Entrepreneur and early Scrum adopter who helped bring empirical agile methods into commercial software organizations.
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Mike Beedle
Entrepreneur and early Scrum adopter who helped bring empirical agile methods into commercial software organizations.
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Miller McPherson
Sociologists of social networks, homophily, and how tie structure shapes information and trust.
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Miller McPherson
Sociologists of social networks, homophily, and how tie structure shapes information and trust.
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Miranda Fricker
Philosopher of epistemic injustice—testimonial and hermeneutical wrongs that distort who gets heard and what can be named.
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Miranda Fricker
Philosopher of epistemic injustice—testimonial and hermeneutical wrongs that distort who gets heard and what can be named.
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MLB.com
Major League Baseball's official news channel explaining ABS challenge design and league policy rollout.
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MLB.com
Major League Baseball's official news channel explaining ABS challenge design and league policy rollout.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
Indian independence leader whose writings and campaigns treated nonviolence as political technology.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
Indian independence leader whose writings and campaigns treated nonviolence as political technology.
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Mordechai Cogan
Assyriologist translating historical inscriptions that flood biblical studies with imperial voice.
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Mordechai Cogan
Assyriologist translating historical inscriptions that flood biblical studies with imperial voice.
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Morris P. Fiorina
Political scientist of retrospective voting in national elections.
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Morris P. Fiorina
Political scientist of retrospective voting in national elections.
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Morton Deutsch
Social psychologist of cooperation, conflict resolution, and the conditions under which competitive groups find workable trust.
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Morton Deutsch
Social psychologist of cooperation, conflict resolution, and the conditions under which competitive groups find workable trust.
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Murray Bowen
Psychiatrist and theorist of family systems—differentiation, anxiety transmission, and multigenerational patterns.
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Murray Bowen
Psychiatrist and theorist of family systems—differentiation, anxiety transmission, and multigenerational patterns.
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N. T. Wright
New Testament theologian reading Jesus's vocation against Israel's hope and empire's claims.
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N. T. Wright
New Testament theologian reading Jesus's vocation against Israel's hope and empire's claims.
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Nancy G Leveson
Engineer and safety scientist of systems thinking, STAMP, and building software and sociotechnical systems that fail safely.
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Nancy G Leveson
Engineer and safety scientist of systems thinking, STAMP, and building software and sociotechnical systems that fail safely.
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Naomi Osaka
Tennis champion whose TIME essay framed mental health and media refusal as athletic agency.
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Naomi Osaka
Tennis champion whose TIME essay framed mental health and media refusal as athletic agency.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Essayist and risk thinker of antifragility, black swans, and fragility under model-driven certainty.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Essayist and risk thinker of antifragility, black swans, and fragility under model-driven certainty.
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Nate Silver
Statistician and forecaster of election modeling, signal versus noise, and probabilistic thinking in public.
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Nate Silver
Statistician and forecaster of election modeling, signal versus noise, and probabilistic thinking in public.
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National Academy of Medicine
U.S. National Academies body issuing authoritative reports on health policy and medical practice.
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National Academy of Medicine
U.S. National Academies body issuing authoritative reports on health policy and medical practice.
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National Archives (U.S.)
U.S. federal archives holding March on Washington demands and related civil-rights documentary evidence.
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National Archives (U.S.)
U.S. federal archives holding March on Washington demands and related civil-rights documentary evidence.
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National Center for Education Statistics
Federal statistical agency publishing graduation rates and schooling indicators.
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National Center for Education Statistics
Federal statistical agency publishing graduation rates and schooling indicators.
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
College athletics governing body whose concussion guidance sets institutional expectations for coaches and athletes.
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
College athletics governing body whose concussion guidance sets institutional expectations for coaches and athletes.