1st Edition
Contagion and the Responsibility of Networks From Pandemics to Financial Crises and Fake News
By Pietro Battiston
Copyright 2025
152 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
152 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
152 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
‘Contagion’ is a crucial term in the theory of networks, that is nowadays employed to study increasingly diverse issues such as financial crises, epidemics, and fake news. It provides a unifying framework to describe various social and economic phenomena that occur within different networks — involving various forms of contagion.
This book discusses contagion over social and economic networks,... Read more
1. What are networks?
2. Externalities and contagion
3. Epidemics and networks
4. Information diffusion as contagion
5. Epidemics in finance
6. Network responsibility
Index
Biography
Pietro Battiston is an Assistant Professor in Economics at University of Pisa, Italy.
