El Gentraso

Today, I'll be talking about People Will Talk on AirTalk with Larry Mantle, KPCC 89.3. It's an NPR station broadcasting to Pasaden...

I haven't even got copies of People Will Talk yet, and I've found a mistake. In the last chapter, I talk about reputation on the lar...

Yesterday's New York Post has an article extracted/adapted from People Will Talk. It's mostly about gossip, the subject of two of ...

In his stylish and thought-provoking book Frozen Desire : An Enquiry into the Meaning of Money, James Buchan argues that one of money's...

If you read the paper on musical diversity within and between cultures in todays Proc R Soc, you will search in vain for any idea of what t...

OK, People Will Talk is creeping onto the shelves (and whatever the electronic equivalent of a shelf is) and we can begin the task of exam...

We've always judged each other by the company we keep, but now, when you meet a stranger via Facebook or Twitter, you can see their soci...

There's not actually very much evolution in Robert Frank 's The Darwin Economy . Frank takes a big idea from Darwin: the insight tha...

Nature Climate Change has just published a comment piece by me looking at the role reputation can play in achieving some sort of action on ...

I started reading The Songlines in the belief that it was a travel book. And it is, and for a while that's all it is — Bruce Chatwin ...

A few months ago, the network researchers Sam Arbesman and Nicholas Christakis published a paper looking at how the frequency of good dee...

Spread among young families there is an ocean of baby clothes. When you’re expecting, you toss in a bucket and haul some out. When your chil...

The paper in this week's Science about how people outsourcie their memories to Google made me think of a piece I wrote for the FT weeke...

Every few years, the Fotherington-Thomases at the London Review of Books give David Runciman a break from writing about the sorry state of...

When you write a book, the publisher sends you a questionnaire asking about promotional opportunities, on which you write down all your big-...