The power of whispers: a theory of rumor, communication, and revolution

DOI10.1111/IERE.12149MaRDI QIDQ2802709zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Heng Chen, Yang K. Lu, Wing Suen

Publication date 27 April 2016

Published in International Economic Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/212044

zbMATH Keywords

communicationcollective actionrevolutionrumor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Communication theory (94A05) Communication networks in operations research (90B18)

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