The World's Top Ten Thinkers

[benjipwns]

As selected by 3000 Prospect magazine readers:
1.   Thomas Piketty (Author, Capital in the 21st Century)
2.   Yanis Varoufakis (Greek finance minister)
3.   Naomi Klein (Author, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies)
4.   Russell Brand (Comedian)
5.   Paul Krugman (Economist)
6.   Arundhati Roy (Author, God of Small Things)
7.   Juergen Habermas (Sociologist )
8.   Daniel Kahnemann (Psychologist, author, Thinking Fast and Slow)
9.   John Gray (Political philosopher)
10.   Atul Gawande (Surgeon, New Yorker writer)

Rest of top 50:

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11. Robert Lanza, biologist

12. Hilary Mantel, novelist/essayist

13. Anne Applebaum, journalist

14. Rebecca Solnit, writer/feminist

15. Mona Eltahawy, feminist Muslim

16. David Chalmers, philosopher

17. Reza Aslan, historian of religion

18. Henry Kissinger, writer/diplomat

19. Winnie Byanyima, human rights activist

20. Mario Vargas Llosa, writer and politician

21. Tyler Cowen, economist

22. Lee Smolin, physicist

23. Linda Scott, economist

24. Michel Houellebecq, novelist

25. Elizabeth Blackburn, biologist/bioethicist

26. Edward Witten, physicist

27. Marilynne Robinson, novelist/essayist

28. Esther Duflo, economist

29. Robert Shiller, economist

30. Jeremy Rifkin, social theorist

30. Evgeny Morozov, writer/tech theorist

32. Joshua Wong, activist

33. Pankaj Mishra, writer/journalist

34. Paul Collier

35. Andrew Sullivan, writer/journalist

36. Anat Admati, economist

37. Diane Coyle, economist

38. Pia Mancini, digital activist

39. Cody Wilson, libertarian theorist/activist

39. John Goldthorpe, sociologist

41. Binyavanga Wainaina, writer/activist

42. Christopher Clark, historian

43. Linda Colley, historian

44. Jean Tirole, economist

45. Mao Yushi, economist

45. Greg Mankiw, economist

47. Danielle Keats Citron, privacy advocate

48. Bruce Katz, policy adviser/academic

49. Robert Plomin, psychologist

50. Gilles Kepel, political scientist

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[benjipwns]

#35 

[Nibel]

I don't see Donatella Versace or Jony Ive on there which makes this list invalid to me

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[benjipwns]

Notably missing: Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Bob Avakian, Slavoj Zizek, political economist and advocate for Bob Avakian's New Synthesis Raymond Lotta and Mark Cerny.

[Reb]

Where's Jay-Z?

[Nibel]

Where's Jay-Z?

Busy writing music history, no time for garbage like this #TIDALera

[toku]

ctrl+f "Kanye West"

[benjipwns]

Brand is the spiritual leader of Britain’s disaffected anti-capitalist youth. In October he published Revolution, a manifesto for the radical redistribution of wealth and power. Dismissed by his opponents as a clownish opportunist, he is nevertheless the most charismatic figure on Britain’s populist left. Brand’s inclusion on Prospect’s list did not meet with universal approval—the Guardian, for instance, said that his “presence looks designed to be provocative.” But other commentators came to his—and our—defence, with one suggesting that many of the criticisms levelled at Brand simply remind us that the “incessant demand for criticism to be ‘constructive’ is another way of defending the status quo.”

[benjipwns]

His book is basically a mashup of every left-wing anti-capitalist anti-power anarchist-totalitarian thing ever written that he's never read splattered with his jokes and style all over it. That advocates tearing down the entire system and then building one that works without any exploitation or poverty or misery or inequality in its place.

Also it has the backwards LOVE thing in the title like the Ron Paul people did.

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[doctavius bonbon]

I remember Brand had that 'Trews' series that he was vlogging, but I didn't know he kept it up for this long. 5 videos a week for over a year, mein gott.

http://goo.gl/GWk1IQ 

[toku]

I hate that I run into megadeth videos on this board.

[Barry Egan]

Puddles is where...?

[chronovore]

Puddles is where...?

Digital Realm Suicide.

[brob]

review of Brand's book, more or less

[chronovore]

I hate that I run into megadeth videos on this board.

I'll start posting slayer videos for you



 

[bork]

Where is Ja Rule to make sense of all this?

[Joe Molotov]

Is this list ranked in quality or quantity?

[Madrun Badrun]

Where is Van on that list for his masterful April fools joke thread 'i put it in the butt!'?

[Kara]

Notably missing: Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Bob Avakian, Slavoj Zizek, political economist and advocate for Bob Avakian's New Synthesis Raymond Lotta and Mark Cerny.

Genius is rarely recognized in its time, and so on.

[Steve Contra]

If someone takes either Russell Brand or Banksy seriously you can pretty much write them off as dumb with a 99% success rate.

[I'm a Puppy!]

At first I was going to say that the list is shit. But upon further inspection I notice that they put Russel Brand next to Paul Krugman. So I guess at least that part is accurate.

[Positive Touch]

If someone takes either Russell Brand or Banksy seriously you can pretty much write them off as dumb with a 99% success rate.

*100%

[Nibel]

Is this list ranked in quality or quantity?

The article says ranked in porn consumption

[Kara]

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

I can't believe Michèle Bernstein is largely forgotten but Citoyenne Klein can keep cranking this shit out.