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DOI: 10.1109/mts.2013.2276667

tlooto Summary

This book reviews networks, crowds, and markets, a field addressing connectedness in information, social, economic, and physical worlds.

Abstract

This book describes an emerging field addressing fundamental questions about how the information, social, economic, and physical worlds are connected. The book was written by two authors at Cornell University, teaching in departments of Economics and Computer Science, who are particularly sensitive to interaction between computing and the social sciences.

Citation format

CHEN, Hongsong. Networks, crowds, and markets: Reasoning about a highly connected world (easley, d. and kleinberg, j.; 2010) [book review]. IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE, 2013, 32: 10–30.