The power law of information : life in a connected world Srinath Srinivasa

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Srinivasa, Srinath

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TextPublication details: SAGE, 2006.ISBN:

9789352800773

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Business and Management

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Contents:

Information and the power law -- 1.1 The information age -- 1.2 Properties of information -- 1.3 Non-linear "frictionless" systems -- Non-linear frictionless systems -- 2.1 Thinking in circles -- 2.2 Sensitivity to initial conditions -- 2.3 Bifurcations -- 2.4 Self-similarity -- Information and rationality -- 3.1 Rational choice and ignorance -- 3.2 Information-related fallacies -- 3.3 Prisoner's dilemma and stable strategies -- 3.4 Evolutionary models of ideas -- 3.5 Satisficing behaviour -- 3.6 Conformance and cartels -- 3.7 Information commons and the attention economy -- Information networks and cascades -- 4.1 Random graphs and connectivity -- 4.2 Small-world phenomena -- 4.3 Clustered graphs and the degree of separation -- 4.4 Kleinberg connectivity -- 4.5 Information cascades in social networks -- Information and money -- 5.1 A brief history of money -- 5.2 Money as commodity and the money marketplace -- 5.3 Purchasing power dynamics in a wired world -- 5.4 Greed is bad for the strong, worse for the weak -- 5.5 Regulate what: material or money?

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Information and the power law --
1.1 The information age --
1.2 Properties of information --
1.3 Non-linear "frictionless" systems --
Non-linear frictionless systems --
2.1 Thinking in circles --
2.2 Sensitivity to initial conditions --
2.3 Bifurcations --
2.4 Self-similarity --
Information and rationality --
3.1 Rational choice and ignorance --
3.2 Information-related fallacies --
3.3 Prisoner's dilemma and stable strategies --
3.4 Evolutionary models of ideas --
3.5 Satisficing behaviour --
3.6 Conformance and cartels --
3.7 Information commons and the attention economy --
Information networks and cascades --
4.1 Random graphs and connectivity --
4.2 Small-world phenomena --
4.3 Clustered graphs and the degree of separation --
4.4 Kleinberg connectivity --
4.5 Information cascades in social networks --
Information and money --
5.1 A brief history of money --
5.2 Money as commodity and the money marketplace --
5.3 Purchasing power dynamics in a wired world --
5.4 Greed is bad for the strong, worse for the weak --
5.5 Regulate what: material or money?

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