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Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and … study how the effect of social media on trust varies depending on the civility or incivility of online interaction. We find …
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In this paper, we focus on a specific component of economically rel- evant trust, i.e. on what we call `institutionally … produced generalized trust', defined as the amount of widespread trust (which is a public good for the economic system as a … economy: for-profit firms and nonprofit organizations. Through an evolutionary model with a trust accumulation equation and …
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We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the...
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We develop an evolutionary model of growth in which agents choose how to allocate their time between private and social activities. We argue that a shift from social to private activities may foster market-based growth, but also generate social poverty. Within a formal framework that merges a...
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We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we...
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parameters representing the relevance of social interaction and trust in well-being and production. When material consumption and …
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We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496155
We develop an evolutionary model of growth in which agents choose how to allocate their time between private and social activities. We argue that a shift from social to private activities may foster market-based growth, but also generate social poverty. Within a formal framework that merges a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317650
We introduce social capital accumulation into a neoclassical model, showing how it differs from physical and human capital accumulation. We take the view that social capital is crucial to the enjoyment of socially provided goods and that it is mainly accumulated by means of participation to...
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