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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Mathematics and models permanently transformed how we investigate contagious phenomena.
Chapter 3: Thanks to scientific models, we can detect contagion patterns in many other areas of life.
Chapter 4: The principles of contagion can also govern financial systems.
Chapter 5: The statistics of violence and crime resemble those of infectious disease.
Chapter 6: Ideas and online memes can spread virally too.
Chapter 7: Online content behaves like contagions, but influencers’ power is limited.
Chapter 8: Technology can aid our tracking of contagions, but only up to a point.
Description
The Rules of Contagion (2020) takes a scientific and mathematical look at how viruses spread, and how ideas, behavior and popular online content all follow similar patterns. By following the rules of contagion, we can gain insight into the spread of ideas, what causes financial disasters, and how harmful acts like gun violence can also infect a community.
Who Should Listen
- People who want to better understand the coronavirus
- Mathematically minded individuals
- Anyone interested in how ideas spread