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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Software engineer of the mythical man-month, Brooks's Law, and essential complexity in large projects.
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Software engineer of the mythical man-month, Brooks's Law, and essential complexity in large projects.
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Freeh, Sporkin, & Sullivan LLC
Law firm that produced investigative reports for universities and institutions, including the Penn State special counsel report.
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Freeh, Sporkin, & Sullivan LLC
Law firm that produced investigative reports for universities and institutions, including the Penn State special counsel report.
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Friedrich A Hayek
Economist and philosopher of dispersed knowledge, spontaneous order, and limits of central planning.
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Friedrich A Hayek
Economist and philosopher of dispersed knowledge, spontaneous order, and limits of central planning.
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Fritz Hirschfeld
Documentary historian collecting Washington's own words and records on slavery.
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Fritz Hirschfeld
Documentary historian collecting Washington's own words and records on slavery.
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer and physicist whose observations challenged geocentric doctrine and institutional certainty.
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer and physicist whose observations challenged geocentric doctrine and institutional certainty.
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Gardiner C. Means
Economists who analyzed the separation of corporate ownership and control in modern capitalism.
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Gardiner C. Means
Economists who analyzed the separation of corporate ownership and control in modern capitalism.
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Gary Klein
Psychologist of naturalistic decision making, recognition-primed judgment, and expertise under pressure.
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Gary Klein
Psychologist of naturalistic decision making, recognition-primed judgment, and expertise under pressure.
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Geert Bouckaert
Public management scholars of government reform, performance regimes, and administrative modernization.
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Geert Bouckaert
Public management scholars of government reform, performance regimes, and administrative modernization.
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Gene Kim
Authors of The Phoenix Project—narrative introduction to Theory of Constraints and DevOps flow.
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Gene Kim
Authors of The Phoenix Project—narrative introduction to Theory of Constraints and DevOps flow.
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Gene Kranz
NASA flight director famed for Apollo 13 crisis leadership and failure-is-not-an-option operations culture.
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Gene Kranz
NASA flight director famed for Apollo 13 crisis leadership and failure-is-not-an-option operations culture.
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Geoffrey C. Bowker
Science studies scholars of classification, infrastructure, and how categories hide work and marginalize cases.
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Geoffrey C. Bowker
Science studies scholars of classification, infrastructure, and how categories hide work and marginalize cases.
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Geoffrey Ingham
Sociologist of money, credit, and the social relations underlying monetary systems.
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Geoffrey Ingham
Sociologist of money, credit, and the social relations underlying monetary systems.
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Georg Simmel
Sociologist of social forms, trust, money, and the stranger in modern urban life.
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Georg Simmel
Sociologist of social forms, trust, money, and the stranger in modern urban life.
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George D Chryssides
Scholar of new religious movements and minority faith communities in modern societies.
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George D Chryssides
Scholar of new religious movements and minority faith communities in modern societies.
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George Lakoff
Cognitive linguists of conceptual metaphor—how embodied experience structures abstract thought.
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George Lakoff
Cognitive linguists of conceptual metaphor—how embodied experience structures abstract thought.
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George Packer
Journalist of Merkel-era Germany and the quiet styles of power in crises.
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George Packer
Journalist of Merkel-era Germany and the quiet styles of power in crises.
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George Spafford
Authors of The Phoenix Project—narrative introduction to Theory of Constraints and DevOps flow.
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George Spafford
Authors of The Phoenix Project—narrative introduction to Theory of Constraints and DevOps flow.
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George Washington
Revolutionary general and first U.S. president whose farewell and household records complicate civic sainthood.
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George Washington
Revolutionary general and first U.S. president whose farewell and household records complicate civic sainthood.
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Geraldine Forbes
Historian of women in modern India and the gendered limits of nationalist leadership narratives.
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Geraldine Forbes
Historian of women in modern India and the gendered limits of nationalist leadership narratives.
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Gerard B. Carsten
Leadership scholars of followership theory and how followers shape organizational authority.
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Gerard B. Carsten
Leadership scholars of followership theory and how followers shape organizational authority.
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Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
Political economist of social capital, trust, and civic participation in democracies.
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Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
Political economist of social capital, trust, and civic participation in democracies.
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Giorgio Agamben
Philosopher of bare life, states of exception, and sovereign power over excluded populations.
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Giorgio Agamben
Philosopher of bare life, states of exception, and sovereign power over excluded populations.
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Goolam Vahed
Historian of South African Indian communities and Gandhi's early political formation under empire.
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Goolam Vahed
Historian of South African Indian communities and Gandhi's early political formation under empire.
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Grand Slam tournaments
Organizing body for tennis majors whose statements define media obligations around athlete participation.
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Grand Slam tournaments
Organizing body for tennis majors whose statements define media obligations around athlete participation.