The power law of information : life in a connected world /
Srinivasa, Srinath,1973-
New Delhi ; London : Response Books,
2006.
Information and the power law -- 1.1 The information age -- 1.2 Properties of information -- 1.3 Non-linear frictionless systems -- Non-linear frictionless systems -- 2.1 Thinking in circles -- 2.2 Sensitivity to initial conditions -- 2.3 Bifurcations -- 2.4 Self-similarity -- Information and rationality -- 3.1 Rational choice and ignorance -- 3.2 Information-related fallacies -- 3.3 Prisoner's dilemma and stable strategies -- 3.4 Evolutionary models of ideas -- 3.5 "Satisficing" behaviour -- 3.6 Conformance and cartels -- 3.7 Information commons and the attention economy -- Information networks and cascades -- 4.1 Random graphs and connectivity -- 4.2 Small-world phenomena -- 4.3 Clustered graphs and the degree of separation -- 4.4 Scale-free networks and Kleinberg connectivity -- 4.5 Information cascades in social networks -- Information and money -- 5.1 A brief history of money -- 5.2 Money as commodity and the money marketplace -- 5.3 Purchasing power dynamics in a wired world -- 5.4 Greed is bad for the strong, worse for the weak -- 5.5 Regulate what: material or money?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Information society.
Social change.