Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - 2003
1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands. Two decades later, in the 1990's the world of economics was much … individuals on the largest island had fallen significantly. Thus we believe that economics is an emerging small world ….An exploration of the micro aspects of the network yields three findings: one, the average number of co-authors is very small but …