WORKING GROUP ON FORMATION AND DECAY OF ECONOMIC NETWORKS

Meeting on Alternative Theoretical Approaches, October 21, 2002

Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY

8:30 am          Continental breakfast

8:55 am          Introductions and Opening Remarks

9:00 am           "Introduction to the Small World Problem"
"Identity and Search in Social Networks"

Duncan Watts, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

10:00 am        Discussion

10:30 am        Break

11:00 am        "Structural Effects in Long Term Social Network Tie Persistence"

John Levi Martin, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University

Noon              Discussion

12:30 pm        Lunch

1:30 pm           "Trust in Social and Economic Exchange: Effects of ‘Social Embeddedness’ "

"Embedded Trust:  Control and Learning"

2:30 pm          Discussion

3:00 pm          Break

3:30 pm          "Social Origins of Good Ideas"
Ron Burt, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

4:30 pm          Break

5:00 pm          "Marriage and Networks"

                        Kaivan Munshi, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

6:00 pm          Break