Lately in class we’ve been discussing social exchange theory, specifically, as it applies to the one-exchange game. As it turns out, some of its premises are largely applicable to the exchange dynamics of intimate relationships – interactions that take place in the marketplace for sex and love if you will. People look to maximize profit […]

 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/health/26fat.html?scp=7&sq=social+network&st=nyt Last summer, an article entitled “Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends” appeared in the New York Times. The story details a study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting that when a person gains weight, their close friends also tend to gain weight. The study followed a group of participants from 1973 to […]

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal titled “How to Hunt for Jobs as Time Out of Work Drags On and On” touches on the importance of expanding social networks to find new jobs. According to the author, one way to expand your social network is to participate in volunteer work. This idea is […]

A recent New York Times article focuses on the development of companies who use the Web as a channel for strangers to collaborate and create business strategies. One company, Kluster, strongly believes in making the consumer the decider on what the next products are. Their motto, “Let’s decide on what’s next, instead of buying what’s […]

The FTA, free trade agreement, between U.S. and South Korea was successfully signed by both nations in 04/02/2007. During the negotiations of the detailed parts of the agreement, both of the nations were careful in not falling into the Prisoner’s dilemma. Both U.S. and South Korea could insist on achieving the maximum profit from the […]

The FTA, free trade agreement, between U.S. and South Korea was successfully signed by both nations in 04/02/2007. During the negotiations of the detailed parts of the agreement, both of the nations were careful in not falling into the Prisoner’s dilemma. Both U.S. and South Korea could insist on achieving the maximum profit from the […]

The FTA, free trade agreement, between U.S. and South Korea was successfully signed by both nations in 04/02/2007. During the negotiations of the detailed parts of the agreement, both of the nations were careful in not falling into the Prisoner’s dilemma. Both U.S. and South Korea could insist on achieving the maximum profit from the […]

The FTA, free trade agreement, between U.S. and South Korea was successfully signed by both nations in 04/02/2007. During the negotiations of the detailed parts of the agreement, both of the nations were careful in not falling into the Prisoner’s dilemma. Both U.S. and South Korea could insist on achieving the maximum profit from the […]

Engineers and planners involved in design need to establish performance reliability in the case of transportation networks. I am examining a paper by Professor Michael Bell of the University of Newcastle in the Transport Operations Group. Bell splits the idea of network reliability into two dimensions; the connectivity of the network, and performance reliability.
Reliability is […]

Until recently I’ve always understood voting to be very simple for the citizens; you pick a candidate whose views best represent your own, maybe you try and talk some of your friends and family into agreeing with you, then you head out to the polls on election day and put in your vote. Apparently […]