isincreasing in the strength of the two ties, and two, the removal of a weak tieincreases average distance in the network more than … the removal of a strong tie. We test these hypotheses using data on the network of coauthorship amongeconomists. We find …

believe that economics is an emerging small world. What is it about the network structure that makes the world small? An … exploration of the micro aspects of the network yields three findings: one, the average number of co-authors is very small but …

, leading us to conclude that economics is an emerging small world. A crucial stable feature of the network over this period is …

networks are either complete or have the stararchitecture. Moreover, the process of network formation has powerful effects on …

.An exploration of the micro aspects of the network yields three findings: one, the average number of co-authors is very small but …