This paper provides a unified framework for interpreting a wide range of interactions models which have appeared in the economics literature. A formalization taken from the statistical mechanics literature is shown to encompass a number of socioeconomic phenomena ranging from out of wedlock...

This paper provides a unified framework for interpreting a wide range of interactions models which have appeared in the economics literature. A formalization taken from the statistical mechanics literature is shown to encompass a number of socioeconomic phenomena ranging from out of wedlock...

Policy researchers — and think tanks — are rarely evaluated in terms of the results of their endeavors. This is the case despite the fact that American society tends to rank most everything from the reputation of physicians to the number of books an author sells, from football players to the...