EMERGING FORMS OF CULTURAL CAPITAL

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

Capital Flows: Emerging Issues

I. Recent Currency Crises A salient fact of Mexico’s and Thailand’s recent currency crises is the active role played by the monetary authority in contributing to the loss of reserves. In both cases, domestic credit showed a sizable increase, driven in part by central bank loans to the financial sector. This stands in sharp contrast with the standard economist’s model in which the proximate caus...

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment

Cultural capital theory vs . cultural policy beliefs : How Pierre

This paper explores the possible uses of Bourdieu‟s cultural capital theory in the making of French state cultural policy. It focuses on the following paradox: this theory had an important if not predominant impact on the intellectual background and expertise of cultural policy, but only limited effects on its actual orientations. To understand this paradox, I go back to the 1960s when both cul...

The Risky Capital of Emerging Markets∗

Emerging markets exhibit (1) high expected returns to capital and (2) large exposures to movements in US returns, measured by the ‘beta’ of the returns to the asset on the returns to its US counterpart. We document these facts in detail for two asset classes stock market returns and the return to aggregate capital and we provide further evidence from a third class sovereign bonds. We use a seri...