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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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Roger Lowenstein
Financial journalist chronicling market hubris, Long-Term Capital Management, and when expertise confuses itself with control.
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Roger Lowenstein
Financial journalist chronicling market hubris, Long-Term Capital Management, and when expertise confuses itself with control.
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Romila Thapar
Historian of Asoka and Mauryan decline, exacting about evidence and imperial mythology.
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Romila Thapar
Historian of Asoka and Mauryan decline, exacting about evidence and imperial mythology.
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Ron Chernow
Biographer of Washington who braids military, political, and private contradictions into one life.
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Ron Chernow
Biographer of Washington who braids military, political, and private contradictions into one life.
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Ron Jeffries
Extreme Programming co-founder with Kent Beck; coach and writer on test-first development, pairing, and sustainable team practice.
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Ron Jeffries
Extreme Programming co-founder with Kent Beck; coach and writer on test-first development, pairing, and sustainable team practice.
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Ronald A Heifetz
Leadership scholar of adaptive work—mobilizing people to tackle problems that require learning and loss.
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Ronald A Heifetz
Leadership scholar of adaptive work—mobilizing people to tackle problems that require learning and loss.
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Ronald E. Riggio
Leadership scholars of followership theory and how followers shape organizational authority.
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Ronald E. Riggio
Leadership scholars of followership theory and how followers shape organizational authority.
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Russell Hardin
Political theorist of trust as encapsulated self-interest, cooperation dilemmas, and institutional credibility.
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Russell Hardin
Political theorist of trust as encapsulated self-interest, cooperation dilemmas, and institutional credibility.
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Ruth Dixon
Public administration scholars of blame avoidance, reputation management, and government accountability theater.
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Ruth Dixon
Public administration scholars of blame avoidance, reputation management, and government accountability theater.
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S. G. Talbot
Physician and writer reframing clinician burnout as moral injury from systems that block ethical care.
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S. G. Talbot
Physician and writer reframing clinician burnout as moral injury from systems that block ethical care.
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S. J. Liebowitz
Economists who challenged path-dependence myths like QWERTY—debating lock-in and market correction.
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S. J. Liebowitz
Economists who challenged path-dependence myths like QWERTY—debating lock-in and market correction.
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Safiya Umoja Noble
Scholar of algorithmic oppression—how search and ranking reproduce racial and gendered hierarchies at scale.
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Safiya Umoja Noble
Scholar of algorithmic oppression—how search and ranking reproduce racial and gendered hierarchies at scale.
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Saleema Amershi
HCI researcher and co-author of guidelines for human-AI interaction in product design and responsible machine learning.
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Saleema Amershi
HCI researcher and co-author of guidelines for human-AI interaction in product design and responsible machine learning.
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Sally Streufert
Researchers on integrative complexity and how leaders structure thinking under conflict and uncertainty.
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Sally Streufert
Researchers on integrative complexity and how leaders structure thinking under conflict and uncertainty.
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Salvador Minuchin
Family therapist and theorist of structural family systems—boundaries, coalitions, and reorganizing stuck patterns.
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Salvador Minuchin
Family therapist and theorist of structural family systems—boundaries, coalitions, and reorganizing stuck patterns.
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San Francisco 49ers
NFL franchise whose statements mark Kaepernick's free agency and early protest response.
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San Francisco 49ers
NFL franchise whose statements mark Kaepernick's free agency and early protest response.
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Science Based Targets initiative
Partnership setting corporate net-zero standards claiming scientific pathway alignment.
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Science Based Targets initiative
Partnership setting corporate net-zero standards claiming scientific pathway alignment.
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Scott E Page
Social scientist of diversity, collective prediction, and how heterogeneous groups can outperform homogeneous experts.
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Scott E Page
Social scientist of diversity, collective prediction, and how heterogeneous groups can outperform homogeneous experts.
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Scott Hirst
Legal scholars of corporate governance, index funds, and concentrated shareholder power.
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Scott Hirst
Legal scholars of corporate governance, index funds, and concentrated shareholder power.
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Sheila Fitzpatrick
Historian of Soviet everyday life, social mobility, and how ordinary people navigated revolutionary bureaucracy.
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Sheila Fitzpatrick
Historian of Soviet everyday life, social mobility, and how ordinary people navigated revolutionary bureaucracy.
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Sherwin B Nuland
Surgeon-writer on mortality, medical uncertainty, and how professions confront limits of control over life.
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Sherwin B Nuland
Surgeon-writer on mortality, medical uncertainty, and how professions confront limits of control over life.
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Shmargaret Shmitchell
AI ethics researchers documenting bias in large language models and harms of opaque training data.
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Shmargaret Shmitchell
AI ethics researchers documenting bias in large language models and harms of opaque training data.
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Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Comparative sociologist of Axial Age transformations in religion, politics, and critique.
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Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Comparative sociologist of Axial Age transformations in religion, politics, and critique.
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Shoshana Zuboff
Scholar of surveillance capitalism—how data extraction turns experience into behavioral prediction and market power.
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Shoshana Zuboff
Scholar of surveillance capitalism—how data extraction turns experience into behavioral prediction and market power.
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Sida Peng
Researcher studying how AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot affect developer productivity and software work.
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Sida Peng
Researcher studying how AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot affect developer productivity and software work.