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Journal of Economic Literature

ISSN 0022-0515 (Print) | ISSN 2328-8175 (Online)

Can We Trust Social Capital?

  • Joel Sobel
Journal of Economic Literature
vol. 40, no. 1, March 2002
(pp. 139–154)
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Abstract

This essay looks at the literature on social capital from the perspective of game theory. It reviews Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam and Social Capital: A Multifaceted Approach edited by Partha Dasgupta and Ismail Serageldin.

Citation

Sobel, Joel. 2002. "Can We Trust Social Capital?" Journal of Economic Literature, 40 (1): 139–154. DOI: 10.1257/0022051027001

JEL Classification

  • Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification