The key lesson is that in the economics of networks, the winner takes all – and once the network is under central control, that winner has the potential to be Big Brother. Host Niall Ferguson ...

Follow @nfergus on Twitter. Episode 1: “Disruption” airs Tuesday, March 17 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV - Host Niall Ferguson compares the great network revolution of our time with one that happened ...

“The world remains a world of squares and towers,” concludes Niall ... network scholars such as Ronald Burt, Mark Granovetter and Duncan Watts, those names do not resurface later in the book ...

Niall Ferguson ... too, network theory offers insights that have utility beyond the typical corporate workplace satirized in Ricky Gervais’s The Office.” Ferguson notes that the book ...

In this groundbreaking new series hosted by Niall Ferguson and based on his bestselling book The Square and the Tower, Ferguson visits network theorists, social scientists and data analysts to ...