Re: Social Capital

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Barkley Rosser says to Mat:

>But, if my recommending you to be published
>occurs in response to your having previously recommended
>that I be published, then this may be the payoff of a social
>reciprocity relation, certainly a cashing in of social capital in
>the Bourdieu sense, if not in the Loury/Coleman/Putnam sense.

What if we were to set up an academic Ponzi scheme?  :)

Why don't the theorists of "social capital" simply say that 
capitalism benefits from an optimal amount of nepotism, corruption, 
etc. (but not from too little or too much of them) for they lower 
transaction costs?

Could I get the above published if it were mathematically formulated? :)

Yoshie