The next Network Science and Economics Conference NSE-12 will be held at the University of Luxembourg Oct 23-25, 2026! Here is a call for papers (due July 31): www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Ca... and the conference series webpage: web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/NS...

💡 Even on matters of life or death, peers strongly influence the choices we make. Fascinating research from Matthew Jackson, SIEPR senior fellow and @stanforduniversity.bsky.social economist, shows this in the context of West Point cadets during the Civil War. Link 👇

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "Network Science's Chief Economist" Former CASBS fellow @jacksonmatthewo.bsky.social chats w/current fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social on Matt's foundational work & empirical applications of the economics of networks & new work w/LLMs 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#matt...

How well can LLMs mimic human behavior in playing games? What is revealed by the prompts needed to generate different behaviors? They reveal quite a lot: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... just published open access with Yutong Xie, Qiaozhu Mei, Walter Yuan

Time to remind ourselves of some observations about how trade appears to help stabilize alliances and prevent international conflict www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/mat...

Matthew O. Jackson: Can Trade Prevent War?

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