Introduction -- Networks : concepts and empirics -- Games on networks -- Coordination and cooperation -- Social learning -- Social networks in labor markets -- Strategic network formation : concepts -- One-sided link formation -- Two-sided link formation -- Research collaboration among firms

Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give much credit to the role of networks until the early 1990s, but since then the study of the theory of networks has...

Biographical note: GoyalSanjeev: Sanjeev Goyal is professor of economics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ’s College. He is one of the pioneers in the economic study of networks, and his work has appeared in leading international journals such as "Econometrica, Journal of...