Who would you want in your Presidential cabinet?

Post 2024-A-0039

Also published at: Substack

asks:

“Building a hypothetical US shadow cabinet seems like a worthwhile exercise. If you were the president, who would you appoint to executive positions? How would you decide?”

I don't know who I would pick for my cabinet, but these are many of the people I'd want on the decision making team:

Alden, Lyn (1) - Federal Reserve
Anderson, Terry - (https://www.hoover.org/profiles/terry-anderson) - EPA
Anzinger, Niklas (2) - FDA, NIH
Bell, Tom W. - (http://www.tomwbell.com/polycentric.html)
Brennan, Jason - (https://gisme.georgetown.edu/people/jason-brennan/)
Buterin, Vitalik (3)
Caplan, Bryan (4) - DHS
Doblin, Rick (5) - FDA, DEA
Gwern (6) - FDA, DEA
Hanson, Robin (7)
Huemer, Michael (8)
Kugelmass, Kugelmass (9) - DOE, NIH
Lucky, Palmer (10) - DOD
McMaken, Ryan (11) - State Department
Metzger, Perry (12) - DOD, NIH
O'Brien, Avens (13) - DEA, press secretary
Peterson, Christine (14) - FDA, NIH
Reeder, Cody (15) - OSHA
Quirk, Joe (16) - NOAA, CBP
Salatin, Joel (17) - USDA
Smith, Keith (18) - FDA
Sorens, Jason (19) - HUD
Strachman, Danielle (20) - DoED, SEC, CFTC
Stringham, Ed (21)
Strong, Michael (22)
Tabarrok, Alex (23) - Federal Reserve, SBA
Vorhees, Erik (24) - SEC
Wade, Magatte (25) - DHS
Wilson, Cody (26) - ATF

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