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For economists, the concept of network refers both to the structure of agents’ interaction and to the economic property of positive externalities. So networks can be viewed both as a set of links that build the interaction among agents, and as a set of agents that adopt a similar behavior for different economic purposes.
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Umbhauer, G. (1998). Introduction. In: Cohendet, P., Llerena, P., Stahn, H., Umbhauer, G. (eds) The Economics of Networks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72260-8_1
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