Matthew O. Jackson

William D. Eberle Professor of Economics

• Office Address:

  Department of Economics, 579 Jane Stanford Way 
  Stanford University, Stanford California 94305-6072, USA
   

• E-mail: jacksonm ``at'' stanford.edu

Background:   Bio   Vitae  

Research:   Books   Papers   Data  

Conference Series:   Network Science in Economics  

Other:   Courses/Moocs   Media/Relics   Blogs

A short video introducing game theory to school children.

A YouTube channel with videos about networks.

An interview with Marcel Fratzscher from Inomics providing some thoughts about economics research (and a pdf of the original).

A few random writings and relics

A memorial article about Hugo Sonnenschein by Salvador Barbera and Matthew O. Jackson.

A speech at our department's commencement ceremony in 2018.

A white paper that I wrote for the NSF on ``Research Opportunities in the Study of Social and Economic Networks,'' September 2010.

``Postcards from the NSF'': A paper about the workings of the NSF and writing NSF proposals that I wrote with Laura Razzolini, June 2002, revised June 2003.

``Notes on Presenting a Paper'' Some notes for our Ph.D. students regarding presenting research papers and seminars, Fall 1998. Also, here are some useful some suggestions from Jesse Shapiro on how to present an applied micro talk.

A Prize and Special Issue in Memory of Toni Calvo-Armengol:

• The Calvó-Armengol Prize has been set-up by the Government of Andorra, the "Fundació Credit Andorrá" and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) to honor Toni's memory. Background and a call for nominations are on the web site The 2024 Prize was awarded to Benjamin Moll - Congratulations Ben! A press release is available here. web site The 2022 Prize was awarded to Stefanie Stantcheva - Congratulations Stefanie! A press release is available here. The 2020 Prize was awarded to Benjamin Golub - Congratulations Ben! A press release is available here. The 2018 Prize was awarded to Melissa Dell - Congratulations Melissa! A press release is available here. The 2016 Prize was awarded to Matthew Gentzkow - Congratulations Matt! A press release is available here. The 2014 Prize was awarded to Raj Chetty - Congratulations Raj! A press release is available here. The 2012 Prize was awarded to Roland Fryer - Congratulations Roland! A press release is available here. The inaugural prize was awarded to Esther Duflo in 2010 - Congratulations Esther! A press release is available here.
• For a short overview of some of Toni's research contributions, here is a brief statement that I wrote for the Journal of Economic Theory

Some thoughts and memories about Ken Arrow as well as a A resolution from Stanford about Ken and some links to other writings about him.

Congratulations to Leo Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for their foundational work in the theories of mechanism design and implementation!

• Here is a short description of some of their contributions. (A much more extensive description was written by the Prize Committee.)
  

I wrote some tips on cycling in time trials and triathlons for some of our students who were doing it for a first time, April 2000

Videos, press clippings, interviews, podcasts, short articles, and other discussions:

• A podcast with Game Changer, October 2025.
• An interview with Wang Jiangtao about AI and its potential to replace human workers, January 2025 and the original in Chinese.
• An interview with Krysten Crawford about supply chain disruptions, September 2024.
• A podcast (`The Mixtape with Scott') with Scott Cunningham, which discusses life, career and research, May 2024.
• A podcast (`Directionally Correct') discussing a range of things with Cole Napper and Scott Hines, May 2024.
• An article by Wang Jiangtao about AI and our Turing Test on chatbots, March 2024 and the original in Chinese.
• An article by Cameron Scott from Stanford about our Turing Test on chatbots, February 2024.
• An interview with Eduardo Olivaro (in Spanish) in El Mecurio, February 2024.
• Million Dollar Stories podcast on networks and behavior, January 2024.
• A roundtable discussion about the future of network analysis, from a Nobel Symposium, August 24, 2023.
• Simplifying Complexity Podcast: How does a poor kid get ahead? Part 2, August 7, 2023.
• Simplifying Complexity Podcast: How does a poor kid get ahead? Part 1, July 24, 2023.
• A Hidden Brain Episode on the impact of Homophily, January 15, 2023.
• A presentation at the Fresno D.R.I.V.E. Initiative (Developing the Region’s Inclusive and Vibrant Economy), December, 2022.
• A Webinar about our papers on Social Capital in the US, October, 2022.
• A podcast on The Cognitive Crucible about game theory and social learning, October, 2022.
• An article in the New York Times about our Social Capital in the United States Project, August 2022.
• An article in the Economist about our Social Capital in the United States Project, and another with graphics, August 2022.
• A podcast with Jim Mora, August 2022.
• An interview on WURD radio.
• Press from the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management, March 2022, and related interviews in the BSE press , the Stanford Report , La Vanguardia , and El Mundo , El Mundo , Expansion , and El Pais.
• A SIEPR policy brief about policy cocktails and inequality, June 2021.
• A podcast with Todd Nief about Human Networks, Microfinance, and Life, June 2021.
• An interview in Econ Focus of the Richmond Fed, May 2021.
• A podcast with Peter Lorentzen about Human Networks, how we study them, and their many implications, April 2021.
• A story from SIEPR about our article on interacting jurisdictions in containing a pandemic, April 2021.
• An interview in the Toulouse School of Economics Magazine, March 2021.
• A VoxDev conversation about the unintended impacts of formal credit programs on social networks, February 2021.
• An interview with Rajk Collage about networks in job markets, education, and international trade, February 2021.
• A wide-ranging discussion about networks research on the Scientific Sense Podcast, January 2021.
• A video of a talk about the interplay between formal markets and informal networks, December 2020.
• An interview with Peking University Financial Review, November 2020 and a version in Chinese.
• Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium.
• An interview with Marcel Fratzscher from Inomics providing some thoughts about economics research, July 2020.
• A webinar presentation of ``The Role of Referrals in Inequality, Immobility, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets,'' April 2020.
• A discussion about pandemics, incentives, and economics, at the Santa Fe Institute, April 2020.
• Thoughts about the economic impact of covid-19 in an article in the Business Insider by Marguerite Ward, April 2020.
• An interview with Melissa de Witte, March 2020.
• An interview on a radio station in Korea, March 2020.
• A video of the Walras-Pareto Lecture in Lausanne, October 2019.
• A podcast with Rachelle Saunders of Science for the People about the Human Network, May 2019.
• A Freakanomics podcast ``How to Change Your Mind'' about opinion formation, May 2019.
• A podcast with Matt Anderson of the Road Not Taken, May 2019.
• A video of a discussion with Nick Obradovich about Social Networks, AI, and Insulated Communities, April 2019.
• A video of a presentation at Google about the Human Network, April 2019.
• A writeup by CIFAR about an article on Machine Behavior, April 2019.
• An interview on Armen Shirvanian's Podcast, April 2019.
• An interview in Hebrew in The Calcalist, April 2019.
• A review of ``The Human Network'' in The Wall Street Journal, April 2019.
• A review of ``The Human Network'' in The New York Times, March 2019.
• An interview in The Stanford Report, March 2019.
• A review of ``The Human Network'' in Kirkus Review, March 2019.
• An article in Spanish in La Vanguardia, March 2019.
• An article in Spanish in El Economista (Espana), March 2019.
• an interview on Krys Boyd's NPR show, March 2019.
• an interview on Joe Danohue's WAMC Northeast Public Radio's show, March 2019.
• an interview on Max Roth's ``What and Why'', and a brief video introduction, March 2019.
• an interview on Mountain Life/KPCW-FM (Utah Public Radio), March 2019 .
• A podcast about the book ``The Human Network'' on Mike Caruther's ``Something You Should Know'' (also available via Art19), March 2019.
• Here is a video of a presentation of ``What Makes Financial Markets Special? Systemic Risk and its Measurement in Financial Networks,'' a paper with Agathe Pernoud, January 2019
• The largest public statement by economists in history recommends #CarbonDividends as a cost-effective, equitable and politically-viable climate solution. #EconStatement http://bit.ly/econstatement January 2019
• A writeup about the paper with Salvador Barbera on Collective Action and Revolutions, September 2017.
• A discussion of the paper with Matt Leduc and Ramesh Johari on the CTN site, September 2017.
• A Stanford Report story on the paper on empathy and networks with Sylvia Morelli, Desmond Ong, Rucha Makati, and Jamil Zaki, August 30 2017.
• A YouTube video of a presentation at the SIOE conference, June 2017.
• A Profile in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 25, 2016.
• An article in Sports Illustrated about role of game theory and American football, By Tom Taylor, January 20, 2016.
• A blog about our work on wars and networks of alliances and trade, by Nathan Collins, Dec 14, 2015.
• An article in El Pais about our work on wars and networks of alliances and trade, by Miguel Angel Criado, Dec 14, 2015.
• ``Connections in the modern world: Network-based insights,'' with Brian Rogers and Yves Zenou, which was published online in Vox, March 6, 2015, is a discussion of ideas behind our paper ``The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure'' paper.
• An interview on the `Faculti' website about leadership, related to the paper ``Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits,'' with Philippe Aghion.
• A blog by Alex Teytelboym on economists and understanding network effects - in the Economist's Free Exchange, Feb 25, 2015.
• An interview with Cyril Monnet on network economics in the Gerzensee newsletter, January 2015.
• A summary of a panel discussion on the study of social networks in the developing world, January 2015.
• An interview in a newspaper in New Zealand, December 10, 2014.
• An interview on Radio New Zealand, December 4, 2014.
• An article about our work on norms and laws by Clifton B. Parker in the Stanford News, November 25, 2014.
• A blog post by Adam Frank for NPR on centrality in networks, November 2014.
• An interview about networks in the CORE newsletter, November 2014.
• ``Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws,'' with Daron Acemoglu, which was published online in Vox, September 19, 2014, is a discussion of ideas behind our paper of the same title ``Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws,''.
• Some thoughts on a visit to PSE, October 2014.
• A post in the MIT Tech Review about our article on war networks and international trade, October 2014.
• A post about a paper on how gossip can be useful in helping people learn about who is central in their social network, October 2014.
• A blog in the Financial Times about a paper on how gossip can be useful in helping people learn about who is central in their social network, September 2014.
• Nathan Collins discussing about an article on financial contagions, September 2014.
• A short video introducing game theory to school children, summer 2014.
• An article by by Loren Mooney in the Stanford Business School Magazine about our paper on war networks and international trade, summer 2014.
• A writeup about our article on culture's influence on play in coordination games, summer 2014.
• An interview with Anja Prummer at Cambridge University's INET, May 2014.
• An interview with a few of us at the CTN (Coalition Theory Network) Meetings, spring 2014.
• An interview with LLuis Amiguet, La Contra in La Vanguardia (in Spanish).
• An article from Stanford News about our project on the diffusion of microfinance in India.
• Another story about our project on the diffusion of microfinance in India.
• An interview in the Tinbergen Institute Magazine in Spring-Summer 2013.
• A blog post for Moblab about new technologies in teaching.
• A CBC video from May 2013 about MOOCs that discusses our game theory course.
• An article in April 2013 about homophily in Science News
• ``How cooperation evolves: History, expectations, and leadership,'' with Daron Acemoglu, which was published online in Vox, June 13, 2011, is a discussion of the issues in the paper ``History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Cooperation,'' .
• An article Web Solutions Applied to the Problem of Toppling Autocrats in the New York Times, February 17, 2011 about co-authored work with Daron Acemoglu on coordination of beliefs.
• An article ``Report: Students' Racial Bonds Driven by Opportunity, Bias'' in AOL News, March 8, 2010, about co-authored work with Sergio Currarini and Paolo Pin on friendship networks.
• An interview with Romesh Vaitalingam of Vox about networks from January 09:
• An article ``Genes and the Friends You Make'' in the Wall Street Journal, January 27, 09: including some commentary about research by Fowler, Dawes and Christakis about genetic influences on social networks
• An Article in the Chicago Tribune from March 6, 2007: ``Mathematics of Friendships'' about co-authored work with Brian Rogers on friendship networks.

Moblab: interactive software for teaching game theory and economics

Altana AI: a model of the global supply network

A Few Links

• The NSF Network Science in Economics Conference Series
  
• The International Conference on Computational Social Science
  
• The NSF-CEME Decentralization Conference Series
  
• SITE - The Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics - web site
  
• The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Group on Institutions Organizations and Growth - web site
  
• The Santa Fe Institute - web site
  
• ``Theoretical Economics'' web site
  
• The ``Not A Journal of Economics'' web site
  
• ESSET - European Summer Symposium on Economic Theory
  
• The Society for Social Choice and Welfare
  
• The Econometric Society
  
• The Game Theory Society