Trust and Ethnic Attitudes as Elements of Regional Social Capital

Race, trust and social 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...

Cyberspace markets, social capital and trust

This short contribution outlines several economic approaches to the issue of trust in cyberspace interactions ranging from e-commerce to interpersonal communication. The purpose is to illustrate some practical contributions that specific areas of economic analysis can make to the analysis of behaviour and to the setting of policies and rules. The focus is on instrumental or ‘purposive’ transact...

Trust, Social Capital and Economic Development∗†

Many argue that elements of a society’s norms, culture or social capital are central to understanding its development. However, these notions have been difficult to capture in economic models. Here we explore a possible role for ‘trustworthiness’ as corresponding to social capital. Individuals are trustworthy when they perform in accordance with promises, even if this does not maximize their pa...

Social Capital, Economic Growth and Regional Development

SRIYA IYER*, MICHAEL KITSON† and BERNARD TOH‡ *Faculty of Economics and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DD, UK. Email: [email protected] †Judge Business School and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK. Email: [email protected] ‡Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. Email: bernard.toh@g...