Schelling, Kleinberg, and Power of Networks in Investing

By Paul Kedrosky · August 22, 2007 · ·

Pardon this bit of unabashed fan-boy geeky-ness, but I wish I was at Cornell this Fall. I would love to take Jon Kleinberg’s new course “The Structure of Information Networks”. (Why can’t Cornell do an MIT and put this video online?)

This is a hot area, which is one admitted attraction, and one in which Kleinberg is a star, which is another attraction, but there are so many interesting applications of information networks in finance and elsewhere.

Here, for example, is a set of hits from Google Scholar on board of directors, investing, and underlying networks.

And it is a good reminder to read Tom Schelling’s classic “Micromotives and Macrobehavior”, if you haven’t already done so.

Related posts:

  1. Blacklight Power and SilkRoad Networks
  2. PNAS Geek-Out, Part III: Geographic Routing in Social Networks
  3. Dash.net and Anti-Social Networks
  4. Investing in RIM: A Bet Against the Internet?
  5. Screwy Scale-Free Networks

Comments

  1. Adrian Heilbut says:
    August 22, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    Along these lines – there’s some fascinating analysis of network relationships among corporate board and management players at NewsVisual, built on a database / analysis platform called IntellectSpace. Worth checking out if you haven’t seen it..