Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson
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How New Networks Break Old Hierarchies

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January 30, 2018

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Radio interview with Midday on WNYC: "Historian Niall Ferguson discusses his new book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. He tells the story of the fall and rise of networks, and shows how network theory--concepts such as clustering, degrees of separation, weak ties, contagions and phase transitions--can transform our understanding of both the past and the present."

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