Social and Economic Networks (eBook)

Matthew O. Jackson (Autor)

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2010
520 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3399-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the latest findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics. He provides empirical background on networks and the regularities that they exhibit, and discusses random graph-based models and strategic models of network formation. He helps readers to understand behavior in networked societies, with a detailed analysis of learning and diffusion in networks, decision making by individuals who are influenced by their social neighbors, game theory and markets on networks, and a host of related subjects. Jackson also describes the varied statistical and modeling techniques used to analyze social networks. Each chapter includes exercises to aid students in their analysis of how networks function. This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in economics, mathematics, physics, sociology, and business.

Autor

Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 114 line illus. 10 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Addition • Adjacency Matrix • algorithm • Almost surely • Approximation • Assortativity • Average path length • Backward Induction • Bargaining Power • betweenness • Binomial Distribution • Calculation • Centrality • coefficient • combination • community structure • complex network • Cooperative Game • Coordination game • corollary • data set • Degree distribution • Degree (graph theory) • Determinant • DIAMETER • Economic Network • Efficiency • Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors • Emergence • Employment • Equation • estimation • existential quantification • expected value • Externality • Flow network • Giant component • graph theory • Identity matrix • Independent and identically distributed random variables • inefficiency • infection rate • Iteration • law of large numbers • Likelihood Function • Markov Chain • Mean-preserving spread • Measurement • Nash Equilibrium • network model • network science • Order of magnitude • Parameter • Pareto Efficiency • Payment • percentage • Poisson distribution • power law • Prediction • Preference (economics) • preferential attachment • price of anarchy • Probability • Probability Distribution • Proportionality (mathematics) • Quantity • random graph • randomness • Random Variable • Requirement • result • Scale-free network • Shapley Value • Social capital • Social Influence • Social mobility • social network analysis • social relation • Social Structure • Sociology • solution concept • Special case • star network • Statistic • statistical significance • Stochastic Dominance • Stochastic matrix • Strategic complements • Subset • Summation • Theorem • theory • Trade-off • transferable utility • Tree (data structure) • Unemployment • Upper and lower bounds • Utility • Wealth • Weighted arithmetic mean
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3399-X / 140083399X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3399-3 / 9781400833993