From: "Paul Marsden" <PaulMarsden@email.msn.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: re. Orlean reference and social contagion
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:54:08 -0000
Aaron said
>I have read this paper now and noticed that the title of Orlean (1992) is
>mistranslated.
Hello Aaron
No, it isn't. I have used the translated title supplied in the Social
Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), where the paper is abstracted (SSCI can be
found at http://www.bids.ac.uk ) This is the problem with citing texts in
other languages, but I think it is better to stick to how they appear in
these indexes, rather than trying to better them and have a proliferation of
papers that are in fact the same one.
>The original title in French is "Contagion des opinions et
>fonctionnement des march=E9s financiers." I would translate this as
>"Contagion of opinions and functioning of financial markets" rather than
>just "Contagion of opinion in financial markets."
By the way, what did you think of the paper? I noticed that the major online
booksellers shelve TC and that other rival book whose name we won't mention
under social contagion, so I suppose my contention that memetics and social
contagion are two sides of the same coin is old news. Hey ho, it's not easy
surfing on the edge of the zeitgeist.
Paul Marsden
Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences
University of Sussex
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