"Networked Economics" session, contiuned (note scare quotes).
Wow, there is somebody from Consumer Reports here.
To continue the thread from my earlier post, there isn't a single economist or network theorist on this panel (insert yawn here). Nic Fulton is the "chief scientist" for Reuters. He's got a PhD in Physics, but sounds like his work is more technologist than what I would consider a scientist.
Wikipedia has a so-so set of articles on network economies here and here.
Contrary to popular opinion among our vaunted media experts, everyone is not on Facebook. Again on the politics on shallow, glitzy business discourse, I am concerned about the easy use of the word "everyone." Let's talk about what we're talking about: "Everyone that matters to me; everyone that I think is important and can offer lucrative opportunities to me."
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"To be sure, [society] cannot exist except through the individuals who serve as its substratum; it is, however, something more than a collection of individuals. A whole is not identical to the sum of its parts, even though without them it would be nothing. In the same way, by coming together in a definite structure..., men [sic] form a new entity which has its own nature and its own laws." -Emile Durkheim, A Course in Sociology
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Why do wars and revolutions happen? We do not know. We know only that to produce the one or the other men [sic] form themselves into a certain combination in which all take part; and we say that this is the nature of men [sic], that this is the law" -Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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