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Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics and Professor of Information Science, Cornell University, Visiting Research Professor, IHS and a member of the Institute's External Faculty.

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Addresses

Selected Papers and Talks

• Linear Social Interaction Models, with William Brock, Steven Durlauf and Raji Jayaraman, JPE, forthcoming.
• Which Networks are Least Susceptible to Cascading Failures, with David Easley, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg and Eva Tardos, forthcoming FOCS 2011.
• Slides for The Blessing of Wealth; The Curse of Poverty, with Klaus Ritzberger, SAET 2011, Faro.
• Short course on wealth dynamics in competitive markets, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, June 2011.
• Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious Risk, with David Easley, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg and Eva Tardos, Proc. 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2011. Presentation by Eva in Jerusalem (30 min).
• Identification of Social Interactions, July 2010, with William Brock, Steven Durlauf and Yannis Ioannides, 2010, Handbook of Social Economics.
• NYCE talk, Expressive Rationality, November 2009, New York Academy of Science. With notes. Blue text is clickable.
• Heterogeneity, Selection and Wealth Dynamics, with David Easley, July 2009, forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics.
• Market Selection and Asset Pricing, with David Easley, for the Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution.
• The Market Organism: Long Run Survival in Markets with Heterogeneous Traders, with David Easley, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, May 2009.
• Constructive Decision Theory, with David Easley and Joe Halpern.
• Rationality, with David Easley, for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
• Convex Programming, for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
• Duality, for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
• Market Competition and Selection, with David Easley, for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
• Lectures on Social Capital, Trento, 2007.
• Trading Networks with Price-Setting Agents, with David Easley, Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos, Games and Economic Behavior, Sep. 2009. Also in EC07.
• The Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination, Economic Journal, Nov. 2006
• Learning and Statistical Discrimination, American Economic Review, May 2005.
• Stigma and Social Control.
• If You're so Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? Belief Selection in Complete and Incomplete Markets, with David Easley, Econometrica, July 2006.
• The Interactions-Based Approach to Socioeconomic Behavior, with Steven Durlauf.
• Equilibrium Concepts for Social Interaction Models, with Steven Durlauf, International Game Theory Review 5:3, 2003.
• Optimality and Natural Selection in Markets, with David Easley.
• Population Games.
• Evolutionary Equilibrium with Forward Looking Players.
• The Algebraic Geometry of Competitive Equilibrium, with William R. Zame.
• The Algebraic Geometry of Perfect and Sequential Equilibrium, with William R. Zame.
• Rational Expectations and Rational Learning, with David Easley.
• The Statistical Mechanics of Best Response Strategy Revision.
• How Noise Matters. Games and Economic Behavior 44:2, 2003.
• On the Private Provision of Public Goods, with Ted Bergstrom and Hal Varian.

Books

• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., Blume and S. Durlauf, eds., 2008.
• The Economy as a Complex Evolving System III, Blume and S. Durlauf, eds., 2005
• Mathematics for Economists, C. Simon and Blume, 1994.