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Un po' di roba interessante. Su un paio di questi penso che scrivero' qualcosa. Ciao Stefano How Can the Decline in Social Capital be Reconciled with a Satisfactory Growth Performance? Stefano Bartolini Luigi Bonatti We aim at reconciling Putnam?s claim that social capital has declined in the U.S. in the last decades with the satisfactory growth performance of the U.S. economy over the same period. This puzzle originates from the fact that most literature on social capital emphasizes its role in enhancing factor productivity ( mainly by reducing transaction costs). We model the hypotheses that the expansion of market activities (increased ?marketization?) weakens social capital formation, and that firms utilize more market services in response to the declining social capital. Within this framework, perpetual growth can be consistent with the progressive erosion of social capital. URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:usi:wpaper:477&r=socù Political Ideology and Economic Freedom. Bjørnskov, Christian (Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business) This paper examines the association between political ideology and the size of government and quality of the legal system and regulations. A cross-country indicator of government and citizen ideology is presented. Empirical results suggest that ideologically leftwing governments increase the size of government while the long-term ideological convictions of citizens affect the size of government and the quality of the legal system and regulations. These effects depend on the degree of political competition while ideology also affects countries? institutional response to economic crisis. URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:aareco:2005_008&r=soc Individual?s religiosity enhances trust: Latin American evidence for the puzzle Pablo Brañas-Garza (Department of Economic Theory and Economic History, University of Granada) Maximo Rossi (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) Dyane Zaclicever (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) This paper explores the effect of religious observance and affiliation to the dominant religion (Catholicism) on trust in institutions, towards others and market attitudes. The analysis is performed using a Latin American database of twenty thousand respondents from 2004 by means of ordered probit models. The most interesting results are: i) Trust toward others is positively correlated with religious observance and with Catholic affiliation. ii) There is a positive correlation between trust in the government, in the police, in the armed forces, in the judiciary and in the banking system and religious practice in general. Identical positive results are obtained for Catholic affiliation. iii) Correlations with attitudes toward the market, in general, are heterogeneous but never negative. In sum, individual?s level of religiosity crucially affects trust in institutions and toward peers. We also found that Catholicism encourages both trust in institutions and towards others. Thus, we found a positive effect of ?religiosity? on social capital. In fact, we never found any negative (and significant) effect on the variables considered. URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gra:paoner:06/05&r=soc The role of opinion leaders in the diffusion of new knowledge : the case of integrated pest management Savastano, Sara e Feder, Gershon The paper reviews the literature on the characteristics and impact of opinion leaders on the diffusion of new knowledge, concluding that there is no clear evidence on whether opinion leaders are more effective if they are similar in socioeconomic attributes to the other farmers rather than superior to would be followers. A multivariate analysis of the changes in integrated pest management knowledge in Indonesia among follower farmers over the period 1991-98 indicates that opinion leaders who are superior to followers, but not excessively so, are more effective in transmitting knowledge. Excessive socioeconomic distance is shown to reduce the effectiveness of diffusion. The paper then derives operational implications of the empirical results. URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:3916&r=soc _______________________ [n] archivi dei messaggi https://www3.autistici.org/pipermail/newbrainframes/ [n] modifica le tue impostazioni https://www5.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/newbrainframes
