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Binyamin Appelbaum

Binyamin Appelbaum

@BCAppelbaum

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I write editorials about business and economics for The New York Times. My new book, The Economists' Hour, is now on sale! bit.ly/EconHour

110978 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

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#425 0.000197 RAND Corporation
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#1472 0.000105 Center for American Progress
#1737 0.000099 Earth Institute
#3533 0.000032 Mercatus Center
#3832 0.000030 Council on Foreign Relations
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#5960 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6764 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
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#7875 0.000011 American Enterprise Institute
#7875 0.000011 National Bureau of Economic Research
#8672 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#9046 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Science

#429 0.000330 EconTwitter
#541 0.000291 Epidemiology Journalism
#5266 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5673 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7241 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Journalism

#709 0.000260 The New York Times
#1114 0.000125 Recode
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#8665 0.000001 BuzzFeed
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#9929 0.000001 The Dispatch

Culture and Political Economy

#1555 0.000079 Ecomodernists
#2943 0.000028 The Long Now Foundation
#2956 0.000018 Social Epistemology
#4307 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4722 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4768 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4863 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4903 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
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#4942 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4957 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#5011 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5242 0.000001 350.org
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#5283 0.000011 Harper's Open Letter
#5318 0.000010 Persuasion Community
#5414 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5556 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#5857 0.000009 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6036 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6175 0.000006 Rationality
#6671 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6775 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#6959 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7103 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7575 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#7612 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8211 0.000000 EFF
#9287 0.000000 Anarachists
#9864 0.000000 Moderate Conservatism

Venture Capital

#1737 0.000067 Village Global
#4740 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4774 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4897 0.000004 Khosla Ventures
#5183 0.000001 Accel
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#5962 0.000001 Y Combinator
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#7896 0.000000 Initialized Capital

system

#2400 0.000057 Think Tanks
#4617 0.000054 Baseline
#8687 0.000040 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#4765 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4857 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4930 0.000001 Polkadot
#5331 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6228 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6235 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6274 0.000000 Cosmos
#7208 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7497 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9306 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9370 0.000000 Ethereum
#9849 0.000000 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#4853 0.000001 Rust
#5227 0.000000 Zig

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