Networks and Groups Models of Strategic Formation
When Murat Sertel asked us whether we would be interested in organizing a special issue of the Review of Economic Design on the formation of networks and groups, we were happy to accept because of the growing research on this important topic. We were also
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Bhaskar Dutta Matthew O. Jackson Editors
Networks and Groups Models of Strategic Formation
With 71 Figures and 9 Tables
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Professor Bhaskar Dutta Indian Statistical Institute New Delhi 110016 India Professor Matthew
o. Jackson
California Institute ofTechnology Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 228-77 Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
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Preface
When Murat Sertel asked us whether we would be interested in organizing a special issue of the Review of Economic Design on the formation of networks and groups, we were happy to accept because of the growing research on this important topic. We were also pleasantly surprised at the response to our request for submissions to the special issue, receiving a much larger number of submissions than we had anticipated. In the end we were able to put together two special issues of insightful papers on this topic. Given the growing interest in this topic, we also decided (with encouragement from Murat) to combine the special issues in the form of a book for wider dissemination. However, once we had decided to edit the book, it was natural to move beyond the special issue to include at least some of the papers that have been influential in t
