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control to a human source of risk while lottery risk has a mechanistic source. We propose a risky trust game that … the classic trust game are indeed best explained by social risk preferences and not by lottery risk preferences with an … objectively known probabilities of trustworthiness, trust also has an ambiguous component. We therefore decompose uncertainty in …
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"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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The question: “How much of biological evolution based theories, as they are understood presently, apply to human behaviour?” is highly controversial and perhaps highly politicized as well. The inference that human beings are evolutionarily programmed to have urges toward aggression, rape,...
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Taxing small deposits used to be a taboo in European politics – but why? This contribution re-assesses the protection of small deposits from an angle that has not received much attention in the current debate: the politico-philosophical, ordo-liberal, and social-political perspectives, arguing...
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trust as a key variety of social capital and it's status among the Poles. Indicated are also differences between the … suspicion, mistrust and functional substitutes for trust. The whole is complemented by breakdown of bottom-up methods of social …
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Questo paper presenta un questionario e una guida pratica per la misurazione del capitale sociale. Il lavoro vuole costituire un vero e proprio manuale rivolto a ricercatori, studenti e docenti, consulenti di impresa e operatori del terzo settore che per qualsiasi ragione, dalla redazione della...
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This chapter surveys the major contributions to the rapidly growing empirical literature on social capital and economic performance, focusing primarily on cross-country approaches. It first addresses characteristics of governments that fall under broad definitions of the term social capital. It...
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This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...
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heterogeneity, and human capital have an effect upon neighborhood trust, which is ordinarily considered as a kind of particularized … trust. The major findings are as follows: (1) Income inequality is associated with low trust for both young and the old … generations. (2) Age homogeneity and education have a detrimental effect on trust. However, this tendency is not observed when the …
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built on social interactions, social norms and trust. Secondly, it argues that social capital affects economic outcomes as a …
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