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Gady Epstein

Gady Epstein

@gadyepstein

The Economist's China Affairs Editor. Formerly media editor. Views expressed may be the opposite of my employer’s

68011 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#8 0.011792 Belfer Center
#539 0.000251 Brookings
#1172 0.000106 Council on Foreign Relations
#1313 0.000091 Atlantic Council
#2021 0.000017 Adam Smith Institute
#2209 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2276 0.000065 American Enterprise Institute
#2276 0.000065 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2543 0.000022 Eurasia Group
#2690 0.000016 Hudson Institute
#4044 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4284 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4499 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4795 0.000015 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#4911 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6974 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#7871 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#8028 0.000000 Earth Institute
#8724 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8816 0.000002 Hoover Institution
#9309 0.000004 Mercatus Center

Journalism

#127 0.001467 The Economist
#647 0.000264 Wall Street Journal
#925 0.000142 Bloomberg Opinion
#949 0.000196 The New York Times
#997 0.000067 CNBC
#1213 0.000101 New Yorker
#1427 0.000097 The Dispatch
#2739 0.000005 Reuters
#3406 0.000021 The Los Angeles Times
#3961 0.000001 The Information
#4473 0.000001 Stat News
#4716 0.000000 OANN
#4734 0.000000 Newsmax
#4782 0.000001 The Verge
#5425 0.000022 The Atlantic
#5941 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6709 0.000001 Wired
#7066 0.000000 The Intercept
#7221 0.000001 Financial Times
#7708 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7871 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#8184 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#9178 0.000001 VICE
#9765 0.000001 Techcrunch

Culture and Political Economy

#95 0.001166 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1323 0.000094 Ecomodernists
#2425 0.000039 The Long Now Foundation
#3560 0.000010 Effective Altruism
#3627 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#3673 0.000001 Fair Vote
#3775 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#3809 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3850 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3861 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3873 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3925 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4154 0.000001 350.org
#4327 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4965 0.000011 Moderate Conservatism
#5107 0.000011 Persuasion Community
#5218 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#5699 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6207 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6234 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#6331 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6445 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#6624 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#6786 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7281 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#7839 0.000012 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#7904 0.000000 EFF
#8409 0.000005 Harper's Open Letter
#8958 0.000000 Anarachists
#9195 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

system

#1190 0.000136 Think Tanks
#4717 0.000050 Baseline
#8572 0.000045 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#1328 0.000029 Bessemer
#3648 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#3685 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4103 0.000001 Accel
#4475 0.000001 Sequioa
#4915 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5672 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#5890 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5923 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6257 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#6415 0.000000 Homebrew
#7298 0.000000 Village Global
#7584 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#8283 0.000007 A16Z
#8326 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#3672 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#3765 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3838 0.000001 Polkadot
#4982 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5888 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#5892 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#5936 0.000000 Cosmos
#6869 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#6927 0.000006 Crypto VC
#7150 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8970 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9020 0.000000 Ethereum
#9504 0.000000 Crypto Investing

Science

#4179 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#4592 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6209 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7833 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#3771 0.000001 Rust
#4878 0.000000 Zig

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