Is Social Capital Really Capital
20 Pages Posted: 22 Aug 2001
Date Written: February 2000
Abstract
Social capital defined as sympathy has capital-like properties including transformaton capacity, durability, flexibility, opportunities for decay (maintenance), reliability, ability to create other capital forms and investment (disinvestment) opportunities.
Keywords: Social capital, sympathy, caring, investment, transformation capacity.
JEL Classification: Z13, D1, D64, B52
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