Purpose – According to Putnam, civic engagement fosters a cooperative structure and generalized trust. This leads to accumulation of social capital, in the form of inclusive, cooperative networks that are economically productive. The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically this thesis. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing upon data from rural Denmark, this paper double tests Putnam’s somew...

Inspired by the interplay between the social structure of accumulation theory and the labor process theory, this paper is to specify the particular mechanism that labor institutions take in accomplishing China's rapid capital accumulation in the reform era. The paper starts by proposing a framework to understand the relation among overtime work, labor process, and the wage gap and presents the ...

This short paper outlines the concept of recovery capital and discusses the impact that the accumulation of individual success has on groups and communities. It seeks to define recovery capital, to capture its flavour and principles, and to look at the intrinsically social forces that are at play in shaping change and in growing communities of recovery. It also outlines how we will be taking fo...

Recently, there has been a shift in the way management scholars view the firm, from more traditional models that are based on ideas of opportunism and market failure (Williamson, 1975), to newer knowledge-based theories that argue for a more socialized perspective (Kogut & Zander, 1992). One of the key components of these theories is the notion of social capital. Social capital is the set of re...

In this Appendix, we discuss the core theoretical claims of Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, in an effort to clarify the relationship between r − g and inequality. The emphasis will be on four issues: (1) what types of models and economic forces lead to a divergence of inequality when r > g; (2) the role of social mobility in this process; (3) what types of models lead instead to a relati...

This paper assesses the impact of investmentand education-specific technical change on occupational transition and the skill premium in a model with human capital. In this framework, human capital augments labour productivity and also facilitates the transition to skilled employment. In line with empirical evidence, this setup predicts that an increase in the productivity of physical capital (i...

This chapter focuses on the rural dimensions of the ‘two economies’ debate, and in particular on the question of what contribution land and agrarian reform can make to reducing inequality and addressing the structural nature of rural poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. It suggests that the problem needs to be conceptualised in terms of an ‘agrarian question of the dispossessed’, that can on...

We prove all the maximizers of the sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality are smooth. More generally, we show all the nonnegative critical functions are smooth, radial with respect to some points and strictly decreasing in the radial direction. In particular, we resolve all the cases left open by previous works of Chen, Li and Ou on the corresponding integral systems.

How does social exclusion on the basis of racial/ethnic identity a↵ect partisanship and political attitudes? Drawing on sociological research on the group basis of partisanship and psychological theories of social identity, we contend that exclusion at the individual level stemming from racial/ethnic group membership can a↵ect political identity. People who feel that a political party excludes ...