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George Selgin

George Selgin

@GeorgeSelgin

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Monetary economist and historian, Director of @CatoCMFA, and NGDP mug collector. I promise not to waste our time by saying things you expect me to say.

15460 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#59 0.003495 Cato Institute
#78 0.001357 Mercatus Center
#262 0.000650 Heritage Foundation
#308 0.000401 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#717 0.000209 Niskanen Center
#928 0.000153 Brookings
#1026 0.000148 American Enterprise Institute
#1026 0.000148 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1092 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1151 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1349 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1769 0.000023 Adam Smith Institute
#2230 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3091 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4029 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4711 0.000002 Earth Institute
#4891 0.000022 Center for American Progress
#5927 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6143 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6968 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#8983 0.000002 Hoover Institution

system

#3 0.002001 Think Tanks
#48 0.000282 Reality-Based Community
#66 0.000386 Baseline

Culture and Political Economy

#306 0.000432 Works in Progress
#608 0.000150 Populist Libertarians
#614 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#663 0.000003 Fair Vote
#791 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#811 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#849 0.000003 Existential Risks
#853 0.000094 Degrowth
#907 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#925 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#953 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1038 0.000114 Rationality
#1170 0.000003 350.org
#1357 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1880 0.000009 Bismark Analysis
#2137 0.000054 Moderate Conservatism
#2161 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2405 0.000054 Progress Studies
#2539 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2750 0.000046 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3201 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3476 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3525 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#4290 0.000003 Anarachists
#4339 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4355 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5056 0.000002 EFF
#7085 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7565 0.000006 Harper's Open Letter
#9214 0.000004 Persuasion Community
#9855 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation

Science

#302 0.000418 EconTwitter
#1223 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1577 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3404 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5072 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8115 0.000002 Biotech

Journalism

#454 0.000259 Bloomberg Opinion
#717 0.000209 Foreign Policy
#937 0.000148 The Dispatch
#1040 0.000003 The Information
#1271 0.000088 Ars Technica
#1427 0.000002 Newsmax
#1433 0.000002 OANN
#1575 0.000003 Stat News
#1956 0.000003 The Verge
#2007 0.000016 CNBC
#2528 0.000003 The Economist
#3030 0.000020 Washington Post
#3299 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3314 0.000004 Reuters
#4190 0.000003 Wired
#4419 0.000003 Financial Times
#4477 0.000002 The Intercept
#5123 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5457 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5704 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6621 0.000003 VICE
#6990 0.000013 The New York Times
#7186 0.000002 Techcrunch
#8601 0.000002 Recode
#8708 0.000004 The New York Post
#8818 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Crypto

#661 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#663 0.000253 Public Goods Funding
#801 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#850 0.000003 Polkadot
#852 0.000108 Crypto Investing
#949 0.000138 Ethereum
#1764 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1991 0.000019 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2761 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2884 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2929 0.000002 Cosmos
#3170 0.000021 Crypto Infrastructure
#5215 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#6832 0.000006 Crypto VC
#7823 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective

Venture Capital

#647 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#721 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1173 0.000003 Accel
#1582 0.000003 Sequioa
#2100 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2197 0.000002 Bessemer
#2650 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2728 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2859 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3256 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3603 0.000002 Homebrew
#4390 0.000002 Village Global
#4597 0.000002 Initialized Capital
#5812 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#792 0.000003 Rust
#1597 0.000002 Zig

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