Who are the world's top 100 Intellectuals?

COLTRANE · (#1 (**permalink**))

Prospect Magazine(for those who read it)has just produced a list of who they reckon are the world's 100 top intellectuals. There are a number of glaring omissions and some suprising entries. I thought we may be able to agree who are the world's 100 most influential intellectuals?

http://prospectmagazine.co.uk/intellectuals/

Omaar · (#2 (**permalink**))

Who are the world's top 100 Intellectuals?

One of them is the O M double-A R.....ofcourse!

Peacemaker · (#3 (**permalink**))

COLTRANE wrote:

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Prospect Magazine(for those who read it)has just produced a list of who they reckon are the world's 100 top intellectuals. There are a number of glaring omissions and some suprising entries. I thought we may be able to agree who are the world's 100 most influential intellectuals?

http://prospectmagazine.co.uk/intellectuals/

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The ones that are missing are probably the best.

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The most popular are often the most harmful.

BlackBrainChild · (#4 (**permalink**))

I should be the number one on there. Since I am BlackBrainChild.

Peacemaker · (#5 (**permalink**))

Idecided to vote for Paul wolfowitz and Pope Benidict XVI on that site.

impactplayer · (#6 (**permalink**))

His name is Roland G. Fryer and many are already comparing him to Dubois. He grew upin poverty but knowhes a professor of economics at Harvard and is only 27 years old.

His bio and some of his work is on the link below

http://www.freakonomics.com/article3.php

umbrarchist · (#7 (**permalink**))

I think the intellectuals that get promoted most by the media are the ones that help justify the system with a little mention of system critics to give the illusion of objectivity. THE SYSTEM buries who it wants to.

There was a series on PBS about globalization which portrayed Frederich Hayek as an intellectual competitor of John Maynard Keynes. If you check the BRAINY QUOTES website http://www.brainyquote.com/ You will find that John Kenneth Galbraith has more quotes there than Hayek and Friedman combined. Galbraith 62, Hayek 34 and Friedman 22, but Galbraith didn't get a Nobel Prize. Hayek and Friedman both got them.

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Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects  will be beneficial is not freedom. - Friedrich August von Hayek

Does this mean that stupid freedoms that have massive negative consequences should be allowed? Like wasting gasoline in gas guzzling cars resulting in global warming. COOL!

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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the  safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. - Friedrich August  von Hayek

That sounds like 9/11 and the NAZI Patriot Act.

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The mind cannot foresee its own advance. - Friedrich August von Hayek

This guy obviously hasn't read enough science fiction. LOL

Friedman and Galbraith both created TV series about economics in 1977. Galbraith made THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY and Friedman made FREE TO CHOOSE. Galbraith blew Friedman away, hands down, no contest. Galbraith actually taught the viewers something and Friedman's was more of a propaganda piece. BELIEVE IN CAPITALISM IT WILL MAKE YOU FREE. Galbraith talked about planned obsolescence in 1959 in his book THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY but I haven't heard of Friedman saying anything about it yet. A Google search for Galbraith and "age of uncertainty" yields 739 hits, while a search on Friedman and "free to choose" gets 30,300. That is a pretty big difference considering that Galbraith has almost 3 times as many quotes as Friedman. Are financial interests promoting ideas that serve the financial interests and the economics profession a maid servant to the status quo?

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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newstyle · (#8 (**permalink**))

I'm counting the months, it's usually months before somebody comes up with the worlds top black intellectuals, like what happended wth the greatest Britain crap. In the mean time I'm with Peacemaker I vote for:

Pope "Let's bring back the inquisition" Benedict XVI

Christopher "Me and my brother are both tossers" Hitchens

Paul #???## ends in anker Wolfowitz

And me old mate:

Niall "Wasn't the British Empire great" Ferguson