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Report by the commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress
TL;DR: As a measure of market capacity and not economic well-being, the authors pointed out that the two can lead to misleading indications about how well-off people are and entail the wrong policy decisions.
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Social capital: implications for development theory, research, and policy
Michael Woolcock,Deepa Narayan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the evolution of social capital research as it pertains to economic development and identify four distinct approaches the research has taken : communitarian, networks, institutional, and synergy.
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Building a Network Theory of Social Capital
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of social capital as discussed in the literature, identifies controversies and debates, considers some critical issues, and provides conceptual and research strategies for building a theory.
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The causes of corruption: a cross-national study
TL;DR: The authors analyzed several indexes of perceived corruption compiled from business risk surveys for the 1980s and 1990s and found that countries with Protestant traditions, histories of British rule, more developed economies, and (probably) higher imports were less corrupt.
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Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America
TL;DR: The Pool Lecture as mentioned in this paper was founded by Ithiel de Sola Pool, a brilliant, broad-gauged scholar whose interests ranged from the Nazi elite to direct satellite broadcasting, from the first rigorous computer simulation of electoral behavior to the development of network theory.