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Measuring social capital – Is there a single underlying explanation?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2003
measurement has not yet been reached. Based on ten existing empirical approaches at the macro, meso and micro level, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652493
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Social Capital: A Standard Method of Measurement.
Hjollund, L.; Svendsen, G.T. - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standard method of measurement for social capital. Various authors have … concept of social capital. A consensus concerning a standardized method of measurement, has not yet been reached. Based on the … should be applied as the most appropriate method of measurement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671686
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Missing social capital and the transition in Eastern Europe
Paldam, Martin; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2000
The transition of the »Old Communist« countries of East and Central Europe has been disappointingly slow given the amount of physical and human capital available at the start of the <p> transition. We argue that this slowness is caused by the lack of social capital, which is an <p> important factor...</p></p>
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Rise and Decline of Social Capital
Poulsen, Anders; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2003
In order to explain excess co-operation in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma game, we first question the standard assumption of stable and selfish preferences by introducing the concept of social capital. This analysis leads to a model that explains excess co-operation through an accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652439
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Social Capital: A Standard Method of Measurement
Hjøllund, Lene; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standard method of measurement for social capital. Various <p> authors have … the concept of social capital. A consensus concerning <p> a standardized method of measurement, has not yet been reached … component analysis <p> should be applied as the most appropriate method of measurement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652457
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Social Capital, Corruption and Economic Growth: Eastern and Western Europe
Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2003
We hypothesize, that power centralisation in a political system leads to more corruption due to the <p> monopoly power status of bureaucrats. Corruption again would then lead to a lower level of social capital, <p> here measured as trust, and slow down economic growth even further. Indeed, when...</p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652489
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Social Capital and Market Centralisation: A Two-Sector Model
Poulsen, Odile; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2004
We develop a two-sector model to analyze which kind of social <p> organization generates social capital. The hypothesis is that social capital must <p> be added as an important production factor when considering decentralization <p> of production. Thus, market centralization processes in a capitalist...</p></p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652495
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Social Capital in Rural Denmark.
Svendsen, G.L.H.; Svendsen, G.T. - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 1999
What are the roots of social capital and how can it be measured and built? Social capital is considered as a new production factor which must be added to the conventional concepts of human and physical capital. Social capital is productive because it increases the level of trust in a society and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780992
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Missing Social Capital and the Transition in Eastern Europe.
Paldam, M.; Svendsen, G.T. - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2000
The transistion of the "Old Communist" countries of East and Central Europe has been disappointingly slow given the amount of physical and human capital available at the start of the transition. We argue that this slowness is caused by the lack of social capital, which is an important factor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641345
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Philosophy of the Multilevel Reality. Applications in Economics [Filozofia realitǎţii multinivel. Aplicaţii în economie]
Alexandru, Popovici - In: Revista OEconomica (2014) 03
Based on the ontological and epistemological problems and solutions and on the analysis of the philosophical grounds of three main schools of economics, exposed in the previous papers, a short overview of the philosophy of the multilevel reality is done. It is shown that the hierarchy of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168480