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$UPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World $UPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and their Networks Rule Our World Bibliography 1. Melanie Mitchell, Complexity: A Guided Tour (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), Kindle location 3811. 2. Koch and Lockwood, Superconnect, 184. 3. Barabasi and Frangos, Linked, 85, 208- 209. 4. Keith Dowding, Encyclopedia of Power (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2011), 663. 5. William Cohan, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (New York: Anchor, 2010), 142. 6. Lucy Kellaway, “Why Financiers Are Leaders in Drivel,” Financial Times, August 2, 2010. 7. Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (New York: Random House, 2010), 208. 8. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (New York: Hachette, 2006), 41. 9. Barabasi and Frangos, Linked, 55–56. 10. 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