This article focuses on the phenomenon of political networking. It analyzes how such a necessity of socialist life and management as personal networking is utilized under the conditions of a transition to a market economy and democracy. The newly established political networks stretch from the...

The organization of individuals into networks and groups is of fundamental importance in many social and economic interactions. Examples range from networks of personal contacts used to obtain information about job opportunities to the formation of trading partnerships, alliances, cartels, and...

Biographical note: MokyrJoel: Joel Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Economics and History, at Northwestern University. He is the author of the widely acclaimed "The Lever of Riches" and editor of the "Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Economic...