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Science 2 October 2009:
Vol. 326. no. 5949, pp. 47 - 48
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167367
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Social Sciences:

A Plunge into Networks

David Krackhardt

Social and Economic Networks by Matthew O. Jackson Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 518 pp. $65, £44.95. ISBN 9780691134406.

Drawing on models, techniques, and findings from sociology, physics, mathematics, and computer science, Jackson provides a foundation for analyzing and understanding social and economic networks.

The reviewer is at the Heinz College of Public Policy and Management and the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

E-mail: krack{at}cmu.edu

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