Throughout this book I have argued that we need to think about society as a network of individual interactions rather than as markets or classes. To accomplish this, I have presented a social physics framework that outlines how the flow of ideas from person to person shapes the norms, productivity, and creative output of our […]
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Social Physics: The Syllabus
Social Physics by Alex Pentland is a valuable book. That does not mean it is a good book. It would be a decent at translating academia to the general public if Dr. Pentland weren’t a compulsive self-promoter who seems to use “I” or “me” in every other sentence. (Un)fortunately there is a lot of value […]
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