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Reading list

As the bibliography on this site is growing, I thought it made sense to separate out books and materials I want to read from those I have read. This is where you'll find the former.

fiction

• Douglas Copeland - early work, for instance Microserfs
• William Gibson - need to reread his entire output!

p2p

• 2001 P2P Networking Overview - The Emergent P2P Platform of Presence, Identity, and Edge Resources from O'Reilly - ISBN 0-596-00185-1 (an industry report)

sociology

• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi - Linked
• Jean Baudrillard - need to look at a number of his works, not yet quite sure what.
• Peter Blau - Exchange and Power in Social Life (1964)
• Coleman, James - Community Conflict (1957)
• Garfinkel, H. (1963) "A conception of and experiments with 'trust' as a condition of stable concerted actions", in O. J. Harvey (ed.), Motivation and Social Interaction, New York, Ronald Press
• Kelly, Kevin (1994) Out of Control, Fourth Estate, London.
• Ibn Khaldun (1958) The Muqaddimah, trans. Rosenthal, F., Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
• Kreps, D. and Wilson, R. (1982) "Reputation and imperfect information" Journal of Economic Theory 27, 253-79
• F. W. Maitland - Trust and Corporation (1904)
• David Marr - Vision. Not directly relevant, but apparently an interesting take on how we see the world.
• Bob Puttnam(sp?) - Bowling Alone - rather general, and a little long. Save for a rainy week!
• John Rawls - A theory of Justice
• Howard Rheingold - have reread "The Virtual Community", but need to see what else he's published more recently
• Rotter, J. B. (1980) "Interpersonal trust, trustworthiness and gullibility" American Psychologist 35, 1-7
• L. S. Shapley and M. A. Shubik - "Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System", American Political Science Review 48 (1948), 787-92
• Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
• Andrew Whiten and Richard Byrne, (1997) Machiavellian intelligence II : extensions and evaluations
• Work on social network theory

technology

• Work on emergent properties and bottom-up systems

trust

• C. Bradford Biddle, Simson Garfinkel, John Gilmore, Rohit Khare, Cricket Liu, Lincoln Stein, et al. - Web Security: A Matter of Trust (O'Reilly, 1997)

Rejected

• Michel Banatre and Peter A. Lee (eds) - Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance: Experiences and Perspectives. Too based in systems to be directly relevant.
• Duncan Black - The Theory of Committees and Elections (1958). Turned out not to be very interesting, after all.
• Cook, Karen S., "Network Structures from an Exchange Perspective." In Marsden, P. and Lin, N. (eds), (1982)Social Structure and Network Analysis, Sage, Beverley Hills, California. Too specific to exchange networks to be interesting.
• Cook, Karen S., Emerson, R., Gilmore, M. & Yamagishsi, T. "The Distribution of Power in Exchange Networks", American Journal of Sociology 89 (1983), pp. 275-305. Too specific to exchange networks to be interesting at this stage - possibly worth coming back to.
• Edwards, Ward and Tversky (eds) - Decision Making: Selected Readings (1967) - behavioural psychology, and not of interest at the moment after all
• Foster, Ian (1999) - The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. Rather simple in scope, and too technical in other places to be of relevance.
• Gumperz, J. J. (1982) Discourse Strategies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Sociolinguistics, and not particularly relevant.
• E.O. Laumann and F.U. Pappi - Networks of Collective Action: A Perspective on Community Influence Systems (1976) - referenced in Marsden and Laumann (1977).
• Niklas Luhmann - Trust, "Trust and Power" (1979). Too philosophical an approach to the question, Luhmann examines trust as an approach to reduction of complexity.
• Mancur, Olson (1965) The Logic of Collective Action, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass. More based on political, economic and lobbying groups than is likely to be of interest.
• Oye, K. (ed.) (1986) - Cooperation under Anarchy, Princeton University Press. Specifically about international relations, and not particularly relevant.
• A. K. Sen (1974) - "Choice, orderings and morality", in S. Korner (ed.), Practical Reason: Basil Blackwell, Oxford, and A. K. Sen (1928) Choice, Welfare and Measurement, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Moral philosophy, and not interesting.
• Fritz W. Sharpf (ed.) (1993) Games in Hierarchies and Networks, Campus Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt/Main. Government and political issues.

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