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David Easley - Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World - 9780521195331 - V9780521195331
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World

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Description for Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World Hardcover. Reveals the interdisciplinary field of networks, which changes how we look at social, financial and technological interactions in modern society. Num Pages: 744 pages, 332 b/w illus. 128 exercises. BIC Classification: JFFP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 263 x 191 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1336. Reasoning About a Highly Connected World. 744 pages, 332 b/w illus. 128 exercises. Reveals the interdisciplinary field of networks, which changes how we look at social, financial and technological interactions in modern society. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: JFFP. Dimension: 263 x 191 x 34. Weight: 1332.
Are all film stars linked to Kevin Bacon? Why do the stock markets rise and fall sharply on the strength of a vague rumour? How does gossip spread so quickly? Are we all related through six degrees of separation? There is a growing awareness of the complex networks that pervade modern society. We see them in the rapid growth of the internet, the ease of global communication, the swift spread of news and information, and in the way epidemics and financial crises develop with startling speed and intensity. This introductory book on the new science of networks takes an interdisciplinary ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
744
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
744
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521195331
SKU
V9780521195331
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About David Easley
David Easley is the Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science and a Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He was previously an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. His research is in the fields of economics, finance, and decision theory. In economics, he focuses on learning, wealth dynamics, and natural selection in markets. In finance, his work focuses on market ... Read more

Reviews for Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
'The first college-level text on network science, it should be a big hit for students in economics and business.' Stan Wasserman, Indiana University 'In this remarkable book, David Easley and Jon Kleinberg bring all the tools of computer science, economics, and sociology to bear on one of the great scientific challenges of our time: understanding the structure, function, and dynamics ... Read more

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