Matthew O. Jackson

William D. Eberle Professor of Economics

Odds, Ends, and Relics




A white paper that I wrote for the NSF on ``Research Opportunities in the Study of Social and Economic Networks,'' September 2010.

``Postcards from the NSF'': A paper about the workings of the NSF and writing NSF proposals that I wrote with Laura Razzolini, June 2002, revised June 2003.

``Notes on Presenting a Paper''Some notes for our Ph.D. students regarding presenting research papers and seminars, Fall 1998.

Here are some press clippings and interviews:

• A CBC video from May 2013 about MOOCs that discusses our game theory course.
• An interview in the Tinbergen Institute Magazine in Spring-Summer 2013
• An article in April 2013 about homophily in Science News
• ``How cooperation evolves: History, expectations, and leadership,'' with Daron Acemoglu, is a discussion of the issues in the ``History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Cooperation,'' paper, which was published online in Vox, June 13, 2011.
• An article Web Solutions Applied to the Problem of Toppling Autocrats in the New York Times, February 17, 2011 about co-authored work with Daron Acemoglu on coordination of beliefs.
• An article ``Report: Students' Racial Bonds Driven by Opportunity, Bias'' in AOL News, March 8, 2010, about co-authored work with Sergio Currarini and Paolo Pin on friendship networks.
• An interview with Romesh Vaitalingam of Vox about networks from January 09:
• An article ``Genes and the Friends You Make'' in the Wall Street Journal, January 27, 09: including some commentary about research by Fowler, Dawes and Christakis about genetic influences on social networks
• An Article in the Chicago Tribune from March 6, 2007: ``Mathematics of Friendships'' about co-authored work with Brian Rogers on friendship networks.

A Prize and Special Issue in Memory of Toni Calvo-Armengol:

• The Calvó-Armengol Prize has been set-up by the Government of Andorra, the "Fundació Credit Andorrá" and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) to honor Toni's memory. Background and a call for nominations are on the web site The 2012 Prize has been awarded to Roland Fryer - Congratulations Roland! A press release is available here. The inaugural prize was awarded to Esther Duflo in 2010 - Congratulations Esther! A press release is available here.
• For a short overview of some of Toni's research contributions, here is a brief statement that I wrote for the Journal of Economic Theory

Congratulations to Leo Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for their foundational work in the theories of mechanism design and implementation!

• Here is a short description of some of their contributions. (A much more extensive description was written by the Prize Committee.)
  

I wrote some tips on cycling in time trials and triathlons for some of our students who were doing it for a first time, April 2000

A Few Links

• The NSF-CEME Decentralization Conference Series
  
• SITE - The Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics - web site
  
• The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Group on Institutions Organizations and Growth - web site
  
• The Santa Fe Institute - web site
  
• ``Theoretical Economics'' web site
  
• The ``Not A Journal of Economics'' web site
  
• ESSET - European Summer Symposium on Economic Theory
  
• The Society for Social Choice and Welfare
  
• The Econometric Society
  
• The Game Theory Society
  

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