Writers about globalization

German-born philosopher (1818-1883)

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.

Arab historiographer and historian

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)

American author (1922–2007)

British playwright (1930–2008)

George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth.

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution. Over his life, he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator and one Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality - Non-Daily.

American economist (born 1953)

French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)

American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

American writer (1925–2012)

English American author and journalist (1949–2011)

American political scientist (1927–2008)

American political scientist, political economist, and author

Polish philosopher and sociologist (1925-2017)

American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)

British sociologist (born 1938)

American author and activist (1952–2021)

British novelist

American economist (born 1954)

French economist (born 1971)

British novelist (1930–2009)

French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)

German sociologist & scholar (1944–2015)

Scottish writer (1954–2013)

American academic and literary critic (1934–2024)

Spanish sociologist

Dutch politician (1948–2002)

American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)

Indian writer

American journalist and author

American journalist (1957-)

British geographer and anthropologist

Greek-French philosopher (1922–1997)

American economist

Egyptian-French economist and political theorist (1931-2018)

Dutch-American sociologist

American philosopher

American political economist (1946–)

Dutch politician (1933–2025)

British author (1934–1995)

British-American philosopher and writer

British historian (born 1938)

American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author

German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984 (1929–2005)

economist

social-cultural anthropologist (born 1949)

American sociologist

Italian economist and sociologist (1937-2009)

American political scientist (1934–2021)

French philosopher, writer and sociologist

French economist

Historian, author, and professor (1931-2018)

British documentary filmmaker (born 1955)

British sociologist (1946-2016)