Networks have a widespread economic significance. They structure the way that market traders interact and configure relations within and between social groups, urban centres and nation states. Networks also determine patterns of authority and dominance in hierarchical organisations such as governments. This authoritative selection of recent work on the economics of networks will appeal to researchers in microeconomics, spatial and business economics as well as international economics and development. Social scientists and natural scientists will also find the book useful as a guide to the increasing wealth of economic literature on networks.
Introduction by Mark Casson and Marina Della Giusta
1 Mayors Learning across Borders: The International Networks of Municipalities in East-Central Europe by Harald Baldersheim and Jan Bucek and Pawel Swianiewicz 1
2 Global Linkages of Subnational Regions: Coastal Exports and International Networks by Ashok Deo Bardhan and Subhrajit Guhathakurta 13
3 Japanese Firms and the Decision to Invest Abroad: Business Groups and Regional Core Networks by Rene Belderbos and Leo Sleuwaegen 25
4 Interlocking Directorships and Trans-national Linkages within the British Empire, 1900-1930 by Mark Brayshay and Mark Cleary and John Selwood 32
5 Private Games are too Dangerous by Ronald S. Burt 46
6 An Economic Model of Inter-Firm Networks by Mark Casson and Howard Cox 77
7 New Product Development and Product Supply within a Network Setting: The Chilled Ready-Meal Industry in the UK by Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt and Martha Prevezer 100
8 Regional Blocs or Global Markets? A World Accounting Approach to Analyze Trade and Financial Linkages by Niek de Jong and Rob Vos 121
9 National Differences in Entrepreneurial Networking by Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd and Eleni Patra 147
10 Information Exchange and the Robustness of Organizational Networks by Peter Sheridan Dodds and Duncan J. Watts and Charles F. Sabel 165
11 Information, Communication Technology, and Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of a Finnish Merchant House by Mika Kallioinen 171
12 Understanding Mexican Migration to the United States by Douglas S. Massey 186
13 Networks of Information, Markets, and Institutions in the Rise of London as a Financial Centre by Larry Neal and Stephen Quinn 218
14 Why Social Networks are Different from other Types of Networks by M. E. J. Newman and Juyong Park 238
15 Capital Networks in the Sheffield Region, 1850-1885 by Lucy Newton 24
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