This is a recommended list for further reading in addition to the assigned readings which may be useful to interested students. Other resources not linked to a specific session are listed below the table.
Ses # | Topic | Readings |
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1 | Introduction to Social, Economic, and Technological Networks |
Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780316346627. Chapters 1–2. Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: How Everything Is Linked to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science and Everyday Life. Penguin Books, 2014. ISBN: 9780465085736. Chapters 1–4. |
2–3 | Network Representations, Measures, and Metrics |
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4–6 | Linear Dynamical Systems, Markov Chains, and Centralities |
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7 | Dynamics Over Graph: Spread of Information and Distributed Computation |
Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: How Everything Is Linked to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science and Everyday Life. Penguin Books, 2014. ISBN: 9780465085736. Chapters 5–7. Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780316346627. Chapter 6. |
8 | Graph Decomposition and Cluttering | |
9–11 | Random Graph Models | |
12 | Generative Graph Models | |
13–14 | Introduction to Game Theory |
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15 | Traffic Flow and Congestion Games | |
16 | Network Effects (I) |
Schelling, Thomas. Micromotives and Macrobehavior. WW Norton & Co., 2006. Chapter 1. ISBN: 9780393329469. Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Sharpens Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations. Anchor, 2005. ISBN: 9780385721707. Chapter 7. |
17 | Network Effects (II) |
Bramoullé, Yann, Rachel Kranton, and Martin D'Amours. "Strategic Interaction and Networks." American Economic Review, 104 (2014): 898-930. Ballester, Coralio, Antoni Calvó-Armengol, and Yves Zenou. “Who’s Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player (PDF).” 2005. Candogan, Ozan, Kostas Bimpikis, and Asuman Ozdaglar. “Optimal Pricing in Networks with Externalities (PDF).” Operations Research 60, no. 4 (2012): 883–905. Goyal, Sanjeev. Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780691141183. Chapter 3. |
18 | Networked Markets |
Mihai, Manea. “Bargaining in Stationary Networks (PDF - 1.1MB).” American Economic Review 101 (2011): 2042–2080. Acemoglu, Daron, Vasco Carvalho, et al. “The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations (PDF).” Econometrica 80, no. 5 (2012): 1977–2016. Parker, Gregory, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Choudary. Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. ISBN: 9780393354355. Evans, David and Richard Schmalensee. The Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms Harvard Business Review Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781633691728. |
19 | Repeated Games, Cooperation, and Strategic Network Formation |
Goyal, Sanjeev. Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780691141183. Chapters 7–10. |
20–21 | Diffusion Models and Contagion |
Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780316346627. Chapters 3 and 6. Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: How Everything Is Linked to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science and Everyday Life. Penguin Books, 2014. ISBN: 9780465085736. Chapter 10. |
22–24 | Games with Incomplete Information and Introduction to Social Learning, Herding, and Informational Cascades |
Golub, Ben, and Evan Sadler. "Learning in Social Networks." In The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks. Oxford University Press, 2016. Acemoglu, Daron, Munther Dahleh, et al. "Bayesian Learning in Social Networks (PDF - 12.5MB)." Review of Economic Studies 78 (2011): 1201–1236. Golub, Benjamin and Matthew Jackson. “Naïve Learning in Social Networks and the Wisdom of Crowds.” Microeconomics 2, no. 1 (2010): 112–149. Goyal, Sanjeev. Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780691141183. Chapter 5. Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Sharpens Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations. Anchor, 2005. ISBN: 9780385721707. Chapters 1–4. Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Di |