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(0)Matthew Jackson
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English
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"Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers" Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University.
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which...
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Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Examines how human networks drive inequality, social immobility, and political polarization and are often overlooked factors in success and failure, examining the role of social structures in patterns ranging from disease outbreak to financial crises.