Pensadores da atualidade

The full list is given in the paper referenced below but the top ten thinkers are as follows:

1. Richard Florida – urban studies theorist and author of The Rise of the Creative Class
2. Thilo Sarrazin – German politician and author of Europe Doesn’t Need the Euro
3. Daniel Kahneman – Nobel prize-winning psychologist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
4. David Graeber – anthropologist and author of The Democracy Project
5. Steven Pinker – experimental psychologist and author of The Language Instinct  
6. Douglas Rushkoff – media theorist and author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
7. Niall Ferguson – British historian and author of Civilization: The West and the Rest
8. David Gelernter – computer scientist and author of America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats)
9. Frank Schirrmacher – German journalist and author of Minimum
10. Franz Josef Radermacher - German mathematician and co-founder of the Global Marshall Planinitiative

If you suspect that this list is a rather biased towards the west, you’d probably be right. Frick and co say the list is highly sensitive depends to how you measure it and admit that all of their influential blogs were in English. Indeed, they compare their ranking to various other methods such as the Google’s citation H-index and the number of Google hits and show that the list order changes considerably. And they say that repeating this process at different times should separate the one-thought wonders from the genuinely creative thinkers who are influential over long periods of time. Frick and co also have a couple of tips for aspiring thought leaders. First, become an economist. Twenty-four of the leading thinkers are economists compared to the next most common discipline, political theory, which had only eight. There are only five biologists, three physicists and two chemists on the list.  

Second, write a book. They point out that every thought leader on their list, bar two, is the author of a book about their ideas.  “Writing a book is key,” they conclude.

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