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Justin Wolfers

Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

nber.org/~jwolfers

Professor @UMichEcon & @FordSchool | @NYTimes contributor | Senior Fellow @BrookingsInst & @PIIE | Intro Econ textbook author | Think Like an Economist podcast

206207 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#1 0.073691 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6 0.014844 Brookings
#209 0.000762 Urban Institute
#274 0.000558 Mercatus Center
#355 0.000393 American Enterprise Institute
#355 0.000393 National Bureau of Economic Research
#426 0.000195 RAND Corporation
#439 0.000240 Cato Institute
#490 0.000257 Hoover Institution
#826 0.000186 Center for American Progress
#894 0.000129 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1518 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1948 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2010 0.000017 Adam Smith Institute
#2593 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2826 0.000007 Berggruen Institute
#3171 0.000009 Niskanen Center
#3433 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4114 0.000028 Council on Foreign Relations
#4354 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#5582 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7233 0.000002 Hudson Institute

Science

#30 0.005242 EconTwitter
#1324 0.000131 Epidemiology Journalism
#1588 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1688 0.000060 Biotech
#1982 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2432 0.000065 ClimateTwitter
#3773 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter

Journalism

#40 0.002004 The New York Times
#261 0.000398 Bloomberg Opinion
#524 0.000263 The Dispatch
#875 0.000133 The Economist
#1056 0.000156 Financial Times
#1399 0.000002 The Information
#1940 0.000002 Stat News
#2152 0.000001 OANN
#2155 0.000001 Newsmax
#2292 0.000002 The Verge
#3171 0.000009 Foreign Policy
#3373 0.000017 Washington Post
#3486 0.000032 New Yorker
#3496 0.000002 CNBC
#3619 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4019 0.000003 Reuters
#4483 0.000002 Wired
#4979 0.000001 The Intercept
#5465 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6056 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6064 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6950 0.000002 VICE
#8252 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9234 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9308 0.000001 Recode

system

#36 0.000300 Reality-Based Community
#56 0.001075 Think Tanks
#443 0.000201 Baseline

Culture and Political Economy

#396 0.000348 Works in Progress
#510 0.000310 Progress Studies
#995 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1043 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1160 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1188 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1227 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1279 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1294 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1317 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1371 0.000095 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1395 0.000102 Moderate Conservatism
#1494 0.000094 Social Epistemology
#1541 0.000002 350.org
#1590 0.000077 Ecomodernists
#1725 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1743 0.000057 RadicalxChange
#2222 0.000043 Rationality
#2800 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3082 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3198 0.000021 Harper's Open Letter
#3296 0.000022 The Long Now Foundation
#3334 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3804 0.000004 Anarachists
#4091 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4178 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4937 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4970 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5636 0.000001 EFF
#6619 0.000003 Degrowth
#7769 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Venture Capital

#523 0.000249 Khosla Ventures
#579 0.000316 My Climate Journey
#1025 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1092 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1425 0.000093 Village Global
#1531 0.000002 Accel
#1934 0.000002 Sequioa
#2440 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2879 0.000001 Bessemer
#3417 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3497 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3888 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4173 0.000001 Homebrew
#5229 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#9487 0.000005 A16Z

Crypto

#1041 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1169 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1228 0.000002 Polkadot
#2457 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3438 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3523 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3564 0.000001 Cosmos
#4419 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4480 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5937 0.000001 Ethereum
#6223 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6835 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8686 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9270 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1168 0.000002 Rust
#2316 0.000001 Zig

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