Tag: social networks
Elite Men and Inequality in the Hedge Fund Industry
The Role of Money in Social Life: Morality and Power in the World of the Poor
Community Capitalism in China: the State, the Market, and Collectivism
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How did the East India Company become the most powerful business in history?
Economists admit: “Humans are fundamentally a social species with interaction patterns that shape their behaviors”. Eureka!!
Mark Granovetter didn’t win (yet) the Nobel Prize. Here is his rejection letter, from 1969
Georg Simmel — The Bridge and the Door
In “Politics and Culture in an Age of Austerity” Amitai Etzioni argues that human contentment is perhaps best found outside of the high-growth, high-consumption paradigm
“Seeing, Knowing, and Regulating Financial Markets: Moving the Cognitive Framework from the Economic to the Social”
Corporate density is especially potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits—but not social welfare nonprofits—when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization
Epinets: a new way of thinking about social networks
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