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Vote on who you think should be crowned the world’s most important thinker of 2014. Prospect has assembled an international list of leading thinkers to identify those engaging most originally and profoundly with the central questions of the world today, and to provoke debate about the role of intellectuals in public life.

 

Elizabeth Anderson, political philosopher. US

Perry Anderson, historian. UK

Kaushik Basu, economist. India

Mary Beard, classicist, writer, broadcaster. UK

Nick Bostrom, philosopher. Sweden

Erik Brynjolffson & Andrew McAfee, economists. US

Judith Butler, gender theorist and philosopher. US

Wendy Carlin, economist. UK

Ha-Joon Chang, economist. South Korea

Patricia Churchland, philosopher. US

Partha Dasgupta, economist. India

Daniel Dennett, philosopher. US

Jennifer Doudna, bio-chemist. US

Esther Duflo, economist. France/US

Pope Francis, 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church. Argentina

Fabiola Gianotti, physicist. Italy

Robert Gordon, economist. US

David Graeber, anthropologist and political activist. US

Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and social theorist. German

Peter Higgs, theoretical phycisist. UK

Daniel Kahneman, psychologist. Israel/US

Naomi Klein, writer and activist. Canada

Christine Lagarde, economist. France

Pascal Lamy, economist. France

Rae Langton, philosopher. Australia

Jaron Lanier, writer, computer scientist and technology theorist. US

Kishore Mahubani, academic and diplomat. Singapore

Elon Musk, businessman. South Africa/US

Thant Myint-U, historian. Burmese

Thomas Nagel, philosopher. US

Martha Nussbaum, philosopher. US

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, economist. Nigeria

Derek Parfit, philosopher. UK

Thomas Piketty, economist. France

Samantha Power, diplomat and writer. US

Raghuram Rajan, economist. India

Janet Radcliffe-Richards, philosopher. UK

Marilynne Robinson, novelist and essayist. US

Arundhati Roy, writer and activist. India

Emmanuel Saez, economist. France

Saskia Sassen, sociologist. Netherlands/US

Amartya Sen, economist and philosopher. India

Anne-Marie Slaughter, international lawyer and political scientist. US

Rebecca Solnit, writer and activist. US

Lawrence Summers, economist. US

Sherry Turkle, technology theorist. US

Roberto Unger, philosopher. Brazil

Janet Yellen, economist. US

Mao Yushi, economist. China

Slavoj Žižek, philosopher. Slovenia

 

'Never even heard of most of them' ( :grandpa: ), though good to see The Pope in there.

 

Where's our hero Abe?

Where's Shakey?

They jolly well deserve to be on a list of best thinkers, there's no doubt.

 

:wakaranai:

 

What a load of old Bobbins!

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You have a point Metabo Oyaji, Abe most definitely is a doer.

There's no faffing about with him.

But I think he's both.

He's a great non-faffing-about thinker, and then quickly putting it all into action.

:thumbsup:

 

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