The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life

Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

There are two broad intellectual streams in the description and explanation of social action. One, characteristic of the work of most sociologists, sees the actor as socialized ...

Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital

Theory: Social capital is the web of cooperative relationships between citizens that facilitates resolution of collection action problems (Coleman 1990; Putnam 1993). Although n...

Social Capital: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Community Embeddedness and Collaborative Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Movement

Abstract Deals with interorganizational networks in the environmental movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. It draws upon literatures on collaborative governance, social capit...

Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might Be Right

Finance matters. The level of a country's financial development helps predict its rate of economic growth for the following 10 to 30 years. The data are consistent with...