https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/21/the-capitalist-network-the-runs-the-world/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/03/21/the-capitalist-network-the-runs-the-world/#comment-306 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:25:45 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=514#comment-306 One of the points in the accompanying article is that ownership doesn’t equal control – a hedge fund that owns a lot of corporate shares may have little actual control over a company’s behavior. What may be more interesting is the sense in which this network shows interconnection – that interconnection can be a vulnerability at a time of financial crisis. Would be very interesting to learn more about whether this model helps spread/explain some of the spreading collapse in 2008…

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