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Kevin Kelly (1998)
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78
Thomas L. Friedman (2005)
The World Is Flat,
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
79
Castells, op. cit., page 470.
80
Granovetter (1983), op. cit., page 219.
81
Tim Harford (2008)
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82
Jane Jacobs (1969)
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83
Michael Porter (1998) ‘Clusters and the New Economics of Competition’,
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76 (6) (November–December) pages 77–90.
84
Edward L. Glaeser, Hedi D. Kallal, Jose A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer (1992) ‘Growth in Cities’,
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100 (6) (December), pages 1126–52.
85
Alfred Marshall (1890, 1920)
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Castells, op. cit., page 55.
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Anna-Lee Saxenian (1994)
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Henry W. Chesbrough (2003)
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Al Ries and Laura Ries (2004)
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90
Clayton Christensen (1997)
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91
Ibid., page 4.
92
Judith Blau (1980) ‘When Weak Ties Are Structured’, unpublished manuscript, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Albany.
CHAPTER TWELVE
93
Based on ‘Mobile Money Spinner for Women’,
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Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005)
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George Gilder (1981)
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Carol Stack (1974)
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George Gilder, op. cit., page 67.
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Herbert J. Gans (1962)
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Granovetter (1983), op. cit., page 210.
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Peter Blau (1974) ‘Parameters of Social Structure’,
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Sudhir Venkatesh (2008)
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Ibid., page 256.
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Quoted in Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (2005)
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104
Granovetter (1983), op. cit., page 213.
105
Stack, op. cit., pages 113–14.
106
Ibid., page 115.
107
Ibid., page 107.
108
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Ibid., page 53.
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Malcolm Gladwell, op. cit.
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See Harford, op. cit., pages 187ff. See also Ed Glaeser and Janet Kohlhase (2003) ‘Cities, Regions, and the Decline of Transport Costs’, Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 2004; and ‘Don’t Refloat: The Case against Rebuilding the Sunken City of New Orleans’,
Slate
, 7 September 2005, available at: www.slate.com/id/2125810.
112
Jane Jacobs (1964, reprinted 1992)
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See Harford, op. cit, pages 133–5 and 185–7.
114
Jacob Vigdor (2006) ‘When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States’, working paper, quoted in Harford, op. cit., pages 164f.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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Kevin Kelly (1995)
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Seneca (2005)
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117
Marshall McLuhan (1962)
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Philip Evans and Thomas S. Wurster (2000)
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119
Castells, op. cit., page 161.
Table of Contents
Authors’ Note
Preface
1 Authors of Our Own Success?
2 Do You Live in a Small World?
3 The Strength of Weak Links
4 The Superconnectors
5 Heaven, Hell and Hubs
6 Cyberspace–Brave New World?
7 Rolodex Roulette
8 Hub to Hub
9 The Network Structure of Ideas
10 Network Stars
11 The Business of Weak Links
12 Poverty, Urban Renewal and Gangsters
13 A Network Society
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Table of Contents
Authors’ Note
Preface
1 Authors of Our Own Success?
2 Do You Live in a Small World?
3 The Strength of Weak Links
4 The Superconnectors
5 Heaven, Hell and Hubs
6 Cyberspace–Brave New World?
7 Rolodex Roulette
8 Hub to Hub
9 The Network Structure of Ideas
10 Network Stars
11 The Business of Weak Links
12 Poverty, Urban Renewal and Gangsters
13 A Network Society
Acknowledgements
Endnotes