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“Social Capital is a double-edged sword.” Comment.

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  • Population Geography

Social capital — the networks, norms of reciprocity and trust that enable collective action — is a resource, not a virtue. The same density of ties that lowers transaction costs and delivers credit without collateral can exclude outsiders, tax members and enforce norms hostile to mobility. Coleman (1988) called it value-neutral for exactly this reason,…

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  • A Value-Neutral Resource
  • The Productive Edge
  • Trust as a Substitute for Contract
  • Credit Without Collateral
  • Information, Jobs and Migration
  • Collective Action and Resilience
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