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See Barabási (2002); John Scott (1991), Social Network Analysis; Mark Buchanan (2003), Nexus; Newman, Barabási and Watts (2006); and Homer-Dixon (2006), chapter 5. For a discussion of the idea of “six degrees of separation” (that you are no more than six handshakes away from any other person on the planet), see Barabási (2002), chapter 3. The two key papers on this “small world” hypothesis are Ithiel de Sola Pool and Manfred Kochen, “Contacts and Influence”, Social Networks, 1, 1978, pp 5–51 (a mathematical analysis); and Jeffrey Travers and Stanley Milgram, “An Experimental Study in the Small World Problem”, Sociometry, 43, 1969, pp 425–443. Both of these articles are reprinted in Newman, Barabási and Watts (2006), pp 83–148. For a discussion of redundancy, see Charles Perrow (2007), The Next Catastrophe, pp 258, 301 and 327–330.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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