Matthew O. Jackson's Interviews
Peter Lorentzen
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Matthew O. Jackson
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05 Jan 2024
• EN
Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson, a professor at Stanford University, has studied how the shape of networks and our positions within them can affect us. In this interview, he explains how network structu
Michael Garfield
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Matthew O. Jackson
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18 Dec 2019
• EN
Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks
It may be a cliché, but it’s a timeless truth regardless: who you know matters. The connectedness of actors in a network tells us not just who wields the power in societies and markets, but also how new information spreads through a community and how resilient economic systems are to major shocks. One of the pillars of
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