Prof. Matthew Jackson, Professor of Economics at Stanford University

Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade, The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms,  Using Gossips to Spread Information: Theory and Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials, and The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets Prof. Matthew Jackson is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, and is president of the Game Theory Society. Prof. Jackson's research interests include game theory and the study of social and economic networks, on which he has published many articles and the books `The Human Network' and `Social and Economic Networks'.