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A recent American Economic Review paper contrasts the economic view of
social network - where social ties can be acquired as resources -- with what
the authors see as the sociological view -- that social ties are spontaneous
outcome of interaction. Using formal modeling they find that one view is
more plausible. It is the sociological one.

Casella, Alessandra, and Nobuyuki Hanaki

2006 "Why Personal Ties Cannot Be Bought." American Economic Review Papers
and Proceedings, 96: 261-264.

http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2006/0107_1015_0201.pdf

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Sheen S. Levine, PhD (Wharton)

 


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