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It was obvious already in the early 1980s when I first met Åke Andersson in Vienna, as he was hurrying off to another meeting to establish new connections, that his deep commitment to the importance of networks and network dynamics extends far beyond theory. I admire and applaud his success in his pragmatic applications of networks, and I agree with his theoretical perspective. Yet, in some sense, these ideas of networks and worrying about the various connections and interactions run counter to a persistent theme of twentieth century economics.
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Saari, D.G. (1998). An Arrow’s Theorem Perspective on Networks. In: Beckmann, M.J., Johannsson, B., Snickars, F., Thord, R. (eds) Knowledge and Networks in a Dynamic Economy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60318-1_8
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