Stephen J. Dubner

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1. Malcolm Gladwell

   Author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink, Outliers: The Story of Success

2. Michael Lewis

   Author of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

3. Thomas L. Friedman

   Author of The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

4. Steven D. Levitt

   Author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

5. Jared Diamond

   Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

6. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

   Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

7. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene, The Greatest Show on Earth

8. Tim Harford

   Author of The undercover economist : Exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor, and why you can never buy a decent used car, The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

9. James Surowiecki

   Author of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations

10. Dan Ariely

    Author of Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

11. Bill Bryson

    Author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home

12. Eric Schlosser

    Author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

13. Barbara Ehrenreich

    Author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

14. James C. Collins

    Author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

15. Daniel Gilbert

    Author of Stumbling on Happiness

16. Chris Anderson

    Author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

17. Michael Pollan

    Author of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

18. Barry Schwartz

    Author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

19. Richard H. Thaler

    Author of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

20. John Perkins

    Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man