The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors

A fresh and intriguing look at how our "hidden positions" in various social structures, or human networks, shape how we think and behave, how our very outlook on life is formed—by a distinguished professor of economics at Stanford University.

Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are but a few crucial phenomena driven by the inevitability of social structures. Social structures determine who has power and influence, can explain why people fail to assimilate basic facts, a...