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Justin Sandefur

Justin Sandefur

@JustinSandefur

Development economist. Father of twins. Fan of pretty graphs.

24976 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#59 0.001695 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#616 0.000225 Brookings
#631 0.000254 Mercatus Center
#1306 0.000037 Berggruen Institute
#2167 0.000051 Hoover Institution
#2363 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2417 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2605 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2833 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3279 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4067 0.000007 Eurasia Group
#4291 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#4619 0.000002 Earth Institute
#4730 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5947 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7554 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8879 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Science

#83 0.001496 EconTwitter
#2491 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2904 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4498 0.000023 ClimateTwitter
#4619 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#6715 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#9491 0.000001 Biotech

Culture and Political Economy

#189 0.000678 RadicalxChange
#198 0.000495 Effective Altruism
#305 0.000496 Social Epistemology
#489 0.000322 Progress Studies
#534 0.000219 Rationality
#725 0.000246 Climate Solutions
#872 0.000152 Works in Progress
#1031 0.000119 The Long Now Foundation
#1456 0.000053 Degrowth
#1917 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#1964 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2074 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2105 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2142 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2176 0.000062 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2181 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2187 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2224 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2451 0.000001 350.org
#2634 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#2925 0.000039 Ecomodernists
#3946 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4456 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5206 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5371 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6061 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6698 0.000001 EFF
#7771 0.000001 Anarachists
#8537 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8770 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Journalism

#515 0.000301 The Economist
#579 0.000207 Bloomberg Opinion
#2298 0.000001 The Information
#2816 0.000001 Stat News
#3150 0.000001 The Verge
#3399 0.000001 OANN
#3412 0.000001 Newsmax
#4360 0.000001 CNBC
#4416 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#4642 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#5240 0.000001 Wired
#5637 0.000001 Financial Times
#5946 0.000001 The Intercept
#5947 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#5979 0.000002 Reuters
#6226 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6834 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7705 0.000001 VICE

system

#99 0.000214 Reality-Based Community
#1019 0.000175 Think Tanks
#5802 0.000029 Baseline

Informal Community

#4838 0.000024 Founders

Crypto

#1963 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2072 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2138 0.000001 Polkadot
#3670 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4620 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4659 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4696 0.000001 Cosmos
#5609 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5814 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7539 0.000001 Ethereum
#7652 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8216 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9876 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Venture Capital

#1942 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#1995 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2428 0.000001 Accel
#2816 0.000001 Sequioa
#3297 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4080 0.000001 Bessemer
#4416 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4619 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4643 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5010 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5215 0.000001 Homebrew
#6106 0.000001 Village Global
#6341 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7241 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#2082 0.000001 Rust
#3551 0.000001 Zig

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