An essay on social capital: looking for the fire behind the smoke

By M. Paldam, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen. 2000

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Natural Resources and Economic Growth: The Role of Investment (2006, background): “Put differently, abundant natural capital may crowd out social capital in a similar manner as human capital (Woolcock, 1998; Paldam and Svendsen, 2000).”
Is trust the missing root of institutions, education, and development? (2013, background): “In other words, instead of constituting a production factor on its own, as Paldam and Svendsen (2000) argue, trust may be a deeper factor affecting fundamental transaction costs.”
In credit we trust: Building social capital by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh (2006, background): “Interested readers can consult several excellent surveys that are part of this voluminous literature (Adler and Kwon, 1999; Harris, 1997; Woolcock, 1998b; Fine, 1999; Paldam and Svendsen, 2000 ).”
Nature, Power, and Growth (2001, background): “1 For a good discussion of the concept of social capital, see, e.g., Paldam and Svendsen (2000).”
Social Capital, Innovation and Economic Growth (2018, background): “Trust is one’s expectation of another’s reliability regarding obligations, cooperative behaviour and fairness in actions and negotiations (Paldam and Svendsen, 2000).”
The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective (2005, background): “Putnam’s (1993) work on Italy has been pronounced by the editor of the mainstream Quarterly Journal of Economics as the most cited contribution across the social sciences in the 1990s (Fine, 2001, 83).”
Natural Resources and Economic Growth: What is the Connection? (2001, background): “Put differently, abundant natural capital may crowd out social capital, by which is meant the infrastructure and institutions of a society in a broad sense: its culture, cohesion, law, system of justice, rules and customs and so on, including trust (Woolcock, 1998; Paldam and Svendsen, 2000).”
A Note on the Theory and Measurement of Trust in Explaining Differences in Economic Growth (2006, background): “However, both theoretically and empirically, these studies exhibit a number of problems (Jackman and Miller, 1996; Fedderke et al. 1999; Manski, 2000; Paldam and Svendsen, 2000; Boggs, 2001; Fine, 2001; Durlauf, 2002A, 2002B; Sobel, 2002; Beugelsdijk et al., 2004).”
Social capital and growth in European regions : An empirical test (2005, background): “Trust is the mutual expectation that arises within a community of regular, cooperative behavior, based on commonly shared norms (Paldam and Svendsen, 2000, p. 342).”