Month: February 2017

  • ISN: What are Social Networks?

    Social networks are based on relations between two or a few individuals from friendships over contracts to work contacts. Throughout the course, the theory behind social networks will be put into context with methods of comparing and applying social networks. Examples from different scientific disciplines will be used to illustrate the social networks. Network descriptives…

  • PE: Institutions and Economic principles

    The main reference for today will be Mueller’s Public Choice III Chapter 1 and 2 (Mueller, 2003)as well as Acemoglu’s Political Economy Lecture Notes Chapter 1 (Acemoglu, 2009). Additional readings are Acemoglu’s Chapter 2 and work by Ostrom (Ostrom, 1998) and Schnellenbach (Schnellenbach & Schubert, 2015). Political Economy joins the fields of Political Science and Economics.…