We’ve had yet another interesting and eye-opening week of posts on network structure and dynamics. One prevalent theme was that of cascades through a network. In one example, gblogger explained the link between cascades and political primaries, specifically the currently ongoing Democratic race for the Presidential nomination. The author explained how certain […]

By an overwhelming margin, this past week’s posts have been about the potential irrationality of information cascades.  Moviegoers, home shoppers, hush puppies, flash mobs, stamp collectors, and wall street (see a great post by ehp1459, and a post about the Indian capital markets by randomvoice) all have a bit of blind-following-the-blind in them.  Posters were […]