19 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American healthcare policy analyst — founder of FREOPP (Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity) — former healthcare advisor to Romney, Perry, and Rubio campaigns — the leading conservative healthcare reform analyst.
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin's nonprofit advocacy organization working to realign technology with human interests — responsible for popularizing the 'attention economy' critique of social media design.
American political scientist — AEI scholar — author of Losing Ground, The Bell Curve, Coming Apart, and Human Diversity — the most controversial and influential conservative social scientist of his generation.
American technology entrepreneur and conservative intellectual — founder of Applied Predictive Technologies (sold to MasterCard) — senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute — author of Uncontrolled (on the limits of social science and the case for policy experimentation).
American AI safety researcher and forecaster — former OpenAI researcher — who published Situational Awareness (2024), a detailed forecast of AGI development timelines arguing that AGI will arrive by 2027 and will trigger a geopolitical race with China — whose departure from OpenAI and publication became a major AI policy event.
New Zealand-American animal welfare policy analyst — strategy lead at Open Philanthropy's Farm Animal Welfare program — the most influential funder working to reduce factory farming through strategic philanthropy.
The ethical position that we should give significant moral weight to the welfare of future generations — and that since the potential future population vastly outnumbers those alive today, reducing existential risks is among the most important moral priorities.
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's 2008 book — arguing that choice architecture (how options are presented) powerfully influences decisions, and that nudges (small changes to defaults and framing) can improve outcomes while preserving freedom.
American technology executive and former COO of Meta/Facebook (2008–2022) who built Facebook's advertising sales business into a $100B+ revenue machine and wrote the bestselling business book Lean In.
Stanford University's interdisciplinary AI research institute — focused on the development and deployment of human-centered AI — producing influential AI Index reports and research on AI ethics, policy, and safety.
American economist — Hoover Institution fellow — acting Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (2020) — specialist in financial history and economic crises.
A 2020 statement signed by epidemiologists Martin Kulldorff, Jay Bhattacharya, and Sunetra Gupta — calling for 'focused protection' of vulnerable populations rather than broad lockdowns during COVID-19.
Lee Kuan Yew's memoir of Singapore's transformation from a poor colonial backwater to one of the world's wealthiest nations — the most detailed insider account of development policy ever written by its architect.
The annual Davos gathering and year-round organization (founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971) that convenes global business and political leaders to discuss world economic and governance issues.
Aaron Ross Powell and Trevor Burrus's libertarian policy case — arguing for the substantive policy agenda that follows from taking individual liberty and constitutional limits seriously.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — created by Nixon in 1970 to set and enforce environmental standards, including the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.
American political journalist and blogger — co-founder of Vox, author of One Billion Americans, and writer of the Slow Boring newsletter advocating for economically liberal, demographically ambitious politics.
Matt Yglesias's provocative argument that the U.S. should triple its population through immigration and pro-natalism — to maintain geopolitical primacy relative to China.
American journalist and columnist — known for applying economic reasoning to policy questions from a libertarian-leaning perspective at The Atlantic, Bloomberg View, and The Washington Post.