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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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Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Historian of Ona Judge's escape from the Washington household and the hunt that followed.
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Historian of Ona Judge's escape from the Washington household and the hunt that followed.
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Erik Hollnagel
Safety scientist of resilience engineering, ETTO principle, and performance variability in complex systems.
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Erik Hollnagel
Safety scientist of resilience engineering, ETTO principle, and performance variability in complex systems.
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Ernesto Laclau
Political theorist of hegemony, empty signifiers, and populist articulation of collective identity.
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Ernesto Laclau
Political theorist of hegemony, empty signifiers, and populist articulation of collective identity.
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Erving Goffman
Sociologist of interaction ritual, face, framing, and the presentation of self in everyday life.
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Erving Goffman
Sociologist of interaction ritual, face, framing, and the presentation of self in everyday life.
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ESPN
Sports media network whose reporting and video archives shape what contested moments become in public memory.
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ESPN
Sports media network whose reporting and video archives shape what contested moments become in public memory.
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Eugene Garfield
Information scientist who developed citation indexing and the journal impact factor.
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Eugene Garfield
Information scientist who developed citation indexing and the journal impact factor.
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Eugene Ulrich
Dead Sea Scrolls scholar on the developmental composition of biblical literature.
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Eugene Ulrich
Dead Sea Scrolls scholar on the developmental composition of biblical literature.
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Eugene V. Gallagher
Scholars of new religious movements, apocalyptic groups, and how high-demand communities manage dissent.
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Eugene V. Gallagher
Scholars of new religious movements, apocalyptic groups, and how high-demand communities manage dissent.
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European Financial Reporting Advisory Group
EU technical body developing European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
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European Financial Reporting Advisory Group
EU technical body developing European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
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Eviatar Zerubavel
Sociologist of cognitive sociology, time maps, and hidden calendars that organize collective attention.
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Eviatar Zerubavel
Sociologist of cognitive sociology, time maps, and hidden calendars that organize collective attention.
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Ezra F. Vogel
China scholar of Deng Xiaoping and the pragmatic remaking of post-Mao authority.
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Ezra F. Vogel
China scholar of Deng Xiaoping and the pragmatic remaking of post-Mao authority.
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Ezra Klein
Journalist and analyst of political polarization, media incentives, and institutional dysfunction.
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Ezra Klein
Journalist and analyst of political polarization, media incentives, and institutional dysfunction.
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Federal Aviation Administration and NASA
U.S. aviation regulators and NASA publishing safety reporting, human factors, and accident learning materials.
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Federal Aviation Administration and NASA
U.S. aviation regulators and NASA publishing safety reporting, human factors, and accident learning materials.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
U.S. deposit insurer analyzing reform options for protecting bank deposits after crisis risk.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
U.S. deposit insurer analyzing reform options for protecting bank deposits after crisis risk.
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Federal Election Commission
U.S. agency publishing campaign-finance disclosure data and enforcement records.
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Federal Election Commission
U.S. agency publishing campaign-finance disclosure data and enforcement records.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Regional Fed bank publishing the Survey of Professional Forecasters and related expectation data.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Regional Fed bank publishing the Survey of Professional Forecasters and related expectation data.
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Felix Martin
Economist and historian of money, sovereign debt, and the social technology of currency.
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Felix Martin
Economist and historian of money, sovereign debt, and the social technology of currency.
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Fernand Braudel
Historian of the longue durée—slow structures, material life, and how deep time constrains political events.
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Fernand Braudel
Historian of the longue durée—slow structures, material life, and how deep time constrains political events.
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Financial Stability Board
G20-linked body tracking implementation and effects of post-crisis financial regulatory reforms.
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Financial Stability Board
G20-linked body tracking implementation and effects of post-crisis financial regulatory reforms.
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Frances Haugen
Former Facebook product manager whose disclosures highlighted engagement-ranking harms and research suppression.
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Frances Haugen
Former Facebook product manager whose disclosures highlighted engagement-ranking harms and research suppression.
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Francis Fukuyama
Political scientist of state capacity, trust, social capital, and how institutions gain or lose governing legitimacy.
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Francis Fukuyama
Political scientist of state capacity, trust, social capital, and how institutions gain or lose governing legitimacy.
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François Clemmons
Opera singer and educator whose memoir with Madigan recounts friendship with Fred Rogers and public neighborliness.
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François Clemmons
Opera singer and educator whose memoir with Madigan recounts friendship with Fred Rogers and public neighborliness.
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Frank Dikötter
Historian of Mao's China, mass campaigns, and bureaucratic terror in the People's Republic.
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Frank Dikötter
Historian of Mao's China, mass campaigns, and bureaucratic terror in the People's Republic.
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Fred Rogers Productions
Production archive stewarding Mister Rogers' Neighborhood materials and hall-of-fame records of public tenderness.
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Fred Rogers Productions
Production archive stewarding Mister Rogers' Neighborhood materials and hall-of-fame records of public tenderness.