The Dynamics of Human Networks and some of their Economic Consequences
Abstract

Social networks are evolving over time, due to globalisation, technological changes, and natural tendencies. We will examine the drivers and wide-ranging implications of such changes in a variety of settings including international trade and conflict, inequality and political polarisation, as well as networks of relationships between university students and implications for academic performance.

Speaker bio

Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and a senior fellow of CIFAR. He was at Northwestern University and Caltech before joining Stanford, and received his BA from Princeton University in 1984 and PhD from Stanford in 1988. Jackson’s research interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, and the study of social and economic networks, on which he has published many articles and the books `The Human Network’ and `Social and Economic Networks’. He also teaches an online course on networks and co-teaches two others on game theory. Jackson is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Game Theory Society Fellow, and an Economic Theory Fellow, and his other honors include the von Neumann Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Social Choice and Welfare Prize, the B.E.Press Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, and teaching awards. He has served as co-editor of Games and Economic Behavior, the Review of Economic Design, and Econometrica.
Date: 24 June 2019, 17:30
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)
Organiser: Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks
Organiser contact email address: economicnetworks@maths.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Bassel Tarbush