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Review of 'social and economic networks'

Review of 'social and economic networks' Review of ˜Social and Economic Networks ™ HARIS AZIZ University of Warwick This is a review of the following book: Social and Economic Networks Matthew O. Jackson Pages: 520 pages Princeton University Press, 2008 Categories and Subject Descriptors: J.4 [Computer Applications]: Social and Behavioral Sciences - Economics General Terms: Networks, Commerce, Economics, Agents Additional Key Words and Phrases: Review 1. INTRODUCTION Social and economics networks have not only attracted substantial research but have also been the subject of popular books [Gladwell 2002; Barabasi 2003]. Networks are ubiquitous with the presence of di €erent kinds of social, economic and information networks around us. The internet, a major source of source of commerce and information is one of the most prominent examples of a complex network. Complex networks have been examined by physicists, sociologists, economists, mathematicians and computer scientists with di €erent perspectives. Social networks (which were initially researched by sociologists) have been given great importance in economics [Goyal 2007; Slikker and van den Nouweland 2001; Demange and Wooders 2005]. Moreover, network analysis [Wasserman et al. 1994] is attracting foundational research by computer scientists [Brandes and Erlebach 2005; Kleinberg 1999]. Di €usion of information, social in ‚uence, trust, communication and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGecom Exchanges Association for Computing Machinery

Review of 'social and economic networks'

Aziz, Haris
ACM SIGecom Exchanges , Volume 8 (1) – Jul 1, 2009
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Review of ˜Social and Economic Networks ™ HARIS AZIZ University of Warwick This is a review of the following book: Social and Economic Networks Matthew O. Jackson Pages: 520 pages Princeton University Press, 2008 Categories and Subject Descriptors: J.4 [Computer Applications]: Social and Behavioral Sciences - Economics General Terms: Networks, Commerce, Economics, Agents Additional Key Words and Phrases: Review 1. INTRODUCTION Social and economics networks have not only attracted substantial research but have also been the subject of popular books [Gladwell 2002; Barabasi 2003]. Networks are ubiquitous with the presence of di €erent kinds of social, economic and information networks around us. The internet, a major source of source of commerce and information is one of the most prominent examples of a complex network. Complex networks have been examined by physicists, sociologists, economists, mathematicians and computer scientists with di €erent perspectives. Social networks (which were initially researched by sociologists) have been given great importance in economics [Goyal 2007; Slikker and van den Nouweland 2001; Demange and Wooders 2005]. Moreover, network analysis [Wasserman et al. 1994] is attracting foundational research by computer scientists [Brandes and Erlebach 2005; Kleinberg 1999]. Di €usion of information, social in ‚uence, trust, communication and

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