6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American China economist — founding partner of Gavekal Dragonomics, the leading independent China economic research firm — author of China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know — one of the most credible independent analysts of Chinese economic policy.
American technology analyst — author of Stratechery newsletter — who created the 'Aggregation Theory' framework for understanding how internet platforms aggregate value — the most widely read independent technology analyst.
American semiconductor and AI infrastructure analyst — founder of SemiAnalysis — the most detailed independent analyst of AI chip supply chains, datacenter infrastructure, and the business of AI hardware.
Stephen Dubner's podcast — extending the Freakonomics franchise into audio — covering economics, behavior, and incentives through reporting and interviews — one of the longest-running and most successful non-fiction podcasts.
The Intermediate Value Theorem: if a continuous function takes values of opposite signs at two points, it takes the value zero at some point between them.
Ben Thompson's daily technology business analysis newsletter — the most widely read paid technology newsletter — which invented the modern technology newsletter business model and the Aggregation Theory framework for platform analysis.