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Katz's discussion of social network structure in Hamilton #17

Closed venkatachalapathy closed 5 years ago

venkatachalapathy commented 5 years ago

In an earlier email thread, I identified chapter 2 as an important place where to extract insights for social network models. Another cursory look took me to chapter 4 where he discusses the entrepreneurial class.

My hunch is that this suggests community structure should has an important role to play in the class of social network models to be used for simulation.

So, I should probably give this book another read. And probably @IngenuityArts too.

divilian commented 5 years ago

To be clear -- which book are you talking about?

venkatachalapathy commented 5 years ago

This one

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674494213

If you remember, we even have a chapter uploaded on zotero.

divilian commented 5 years ago

Thanks for clarifying, and yes I've read chapter 2. If you upload chapter 4 to Zotero, I'll read that one as well.

IngenuityArts commented 5 years ago

The other book that is very important in this regard is Carmen Nielson's book "Private Women and the Public Good: Charity and State Formation in Hamilton 1846-1893" which had a couple of selections sent earlier in an email thread (I had to hunt a bit to find it so may also have been forgotten by others). I have re-attached the two pages here. They are a good supplement to Katz chapters noted. nielson_hamilton 1846-1_privatewomen_publicgood nielson_hamilton 1846-2_privatewomen_publicgood

IngenuityArts commented 5 years ago

This paper "Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Evidence from Census-Linked Probate Data" may also be of interest. I have added it to my list in Zotero as well. Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario_Di Matteo_2001.pdf

divilian commented 5 years ago

Re-reading the Nielson pages, I was struck by the fact that the influential cohort "allied against" non-WASPs. Simulation-wise, that seems like it would correspond to each agent having an exogenous attribute (representing race/religion/anything) which partially determined whether or not one agent would be likely to form a proto-inst with another.

For another day.

IngenuityArts commented 5 years ago

In the actual human environment, yes, these things are powerful. In our highly artificial proto-environment, they are ideas to be tested beyond the core or SPECstar space.

divilian commented 5 years ago

Closing this since it no longer appears to be an action item.