Toward a Theory of Social Capital

dc.contributor.authorGonzalo Vargas
dc.coverage.spatialBolivia
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-22T17:23:40Z
dc.date.available2026-03-22T17:23:40Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractIn the last decade, the concept of social capital has been widely accepted by academics, advisors and government officials, who have attributed to it virtuous effects on economic and social development. However, theoretical and applied literature gives many different meanings to the concept of social capital, leading to methodological difficulties. Thus, the concept of social capital is merely the entrance to a theoretical structure under construction, whose components and 'materials' come from different approaches. From a mainstream economics approach, the New Institutionalism offers important elements for the construction of this theory.
dc.identifier.urihttps://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/63913
dc.language.isoen
dc.sourceUniversidad de Los Andes
dc.subjectSocial capital
dc.subjectMainstream
dc.subjectInstitutionalism
dc.subjectPositive economics
dc.subjectIndividual capital
dc.subjectSocial reproduction
dc.subjectNeoclassical economics
dc.subjectGovernment (linguistics)
dc.subjectCapital (architecture)
dc.subjectMainstream economics
dc.titleToward a Theory of Social Capital
dc.typearticle

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