pie-eater 207 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 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' ( ), 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. What a load of old Bobbins! Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I'm surprised you are not on there either, pie-eater. With all your projects on the go including the important dome-related ones. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Janet Yellen. Whatever she thinks will drive the world in that direction. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 And Peter Higgs. If he had not thought of that, there would be no world. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I know nine! yay! Am i an academic yet? Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Where's our hero Abe? He's a doer, not some lame old thinker! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 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. Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 very surprised this deep thinker was not on the list Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 He was a card, wasn't he. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 the joker. Link to post Share on other sites
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