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, 2004 This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic outcomes.
Steven N. Durlauf, Marcel Fafchamps
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 We construct a simple equilibrium search model in which workers accumulate information about previously met employment contacts. We term the latter search capital. Here search capital (partially) insures workers against adverse shocks. The model provides a theory of job-to-job transitions that are associated with voluntary or involuntary mobility and ...
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Eric Smith
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Understanding the Paths to Appearance- and Performance-Enhancing Drug Use in Bodybuilding
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 How do gym-goers who are normally not inclined to resort to appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs (APEDs) progressively normalize their use? Based on data collected through a year and a half of participant observation in a gym and 30 semi-directive
Ronan Coquet, Peggy Roussel, Fabien Ohl
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ISSUES OF INDIVIDUAL CAPITALISM IN THE NARRATIVE FILM OF THANK YOU FOR SMOKING AND THE COMPANY MEN
Lire Journal, 2020 The idea of capitalism always refers to the triumph of the U.S. giant industry. In economic field, American and British capitalism is called as individual capitalism – the contrary of communal capitalism a la Japan and Germany.
Sukarni Suryaningsih
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Gerakan Anti Kapitalisme Global
JSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 2004 Capitalism is contradiction. The flourish of liberal capitalism is met with a global scale of anti-capitalism, which ironically makes capitalism even stronger.
Eric Hiariej
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SOCIAL CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND FERTILITY [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019 We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the accumulation of human capital. We show how the erosion of social
Coppier, Raffaella +2 more
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Countering Local Disaster Capitalism
Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2023 Disaster capitalism creates political and economic space for neoliberal projects to benefit the wealthy disproportionately while marginalizing Indigenous groups.
Ayusha Bajracharya
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The Continuing Relevance of the Marxist Tradition for Transcending Capitalism
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018 No idea is more closely associated with Marx than the claim that the intrinsic, contradictory dynamics of capitalism ultimately lead to its self-destruction while simultaneously creating conditions favourable for a revolutionary rupture needed to create
Erik Olin Wright
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Greening Capitalism? A Marxist Critique of Carbon Markets [PDF]
, 2012 Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a serious threat to dominant modes of social organization, inspiring suggestions that capitalism itself needs to be transformed if we are to ‘decarbonize’ the global economy. Since the Kyoto Protocol in
Abate R. S. +36 more
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In the Beginning There Was Chaos and Rhythm [PDF]
La Deleuziana, 2019 In the 80s of the XX century some philosophical and artistic events marked the irruption of what can be defined as a late-twentieth-century version of ‘divergent subjectivity’.
Obsolete Capitalism
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