In this paper we survey the study of social networks and their application to economic
history. We take the perspective of the applied researcher and focus on empirical methods …

In this chapter, we discuss social network analysis as a method for the history of economics.
We argue that social network analysis is not primarily a method of data representation but …

Network analysis is increasingly appreciated as a methodology in the social sciences. In
recent years, it is also receiving attention among historians of science. History of economics …

Recently, we have witnessed the emergence of network analysis in historical studies.
Indeed, the term 'network'can be found in books, journals, articles, international conferences …

Historians of science have always known that science is a relational endeavor and have
thus consistently studied relations. They have studied relations among scholars, for …

In this chapter, I provide an overview of research on social networks and their role in
shaping behavior and economic outcomes. I include discussion of empirical and theoretical …

Today, social networks analysis has become a cross‐disciplinary subject with applications
in diverse fields of social and economic life. Different network designs provide different …

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. etwork analysis is a powerful approach that
has begun N to make important contributions to historical work, but many researchers do not …

In this chapter, network analysis has been used to map out disciplinary areas of research
and authorship in economic history. A total of 5,330 peer-reviewed articles published in the …

Social and economic networks are ubiquitous, serving as contexts for job search, technology
diffusion, the accumulation of human capital, and even the formulation of norms and values …