| From GDP to Well-Being: Economics on the Road to Sustainability |
The conference is organized by Università Politecnica delle Marche amd will take place in Ancona, Italy, on 3-5 December 2009. Several papers will deal with topics related to social capital.
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| Theories of Social Capital |
Theories of Social Capital. Researchers Behaving Badly is the latest book of Ben Fine. Ben Fine is the world’s most thorough and indefatigible critic of the abuse of the concept of capital that follows from adding ‘social’ - and other adjectives - to it.
Follow the link for full details.
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| Latest books |
Economic Growth and Structural Features of Transition, edited by Enrico Marelli and Marcello Signorelli.
Gangs, Marginalised Youth and Social Capital, by Ross Deuchar.
Unanticiped Games: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, by Mario L. Small.
Handbook of Social Capital. The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics, edited by Gert Tinggaard Svendsen and Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen.
Social Capital and Internet Usage of Rural Guatemalan Teachers, by Douglas Tedford.
Social Capital & Urban Networks of Trust, edited by Jouni Häkli and Claudio Minca.
Global Sustainability. Social and Environmental Conditions, by Simone Borghesi and Alessandro Vercelli.
Social Capital Modeling in Virtual Communities: Bayesian Belief Network Approaches by Ben K. Daniel.
Handbook of Social Capital, edited by Dario Castiglione, Jan van Deth and Guglielmo Wolleb.
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| Latest papers |
New: Archive of all the papers on social capital and related topics published in 2008.
Papers are taken from the NEP-Soc newsletter on "Social norms & social capital" edited by Fabio Sabatini within the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Project. Every week the newsletter proposes, for free, a series of new downloadable papers selected from the ones inserted in the archive of the RePEc system, the main world database of Economics studies.
In the foreground
Angelo Antoci, Fabio Sabatini & Mauro Sodini, 2009, Will growth and technology destroy social interaction? The inverted U hypothesis.
Andrew E. Clark & Orsolya Lelkes, 2009. "Let us pray: religious interactions in life satisfaction.
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni & Patacchini, Eleonora & Zenou, Yves, 2009. "Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education.
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PhD theses on social capital,
development and
related topics
This is a new tentative section aiming to collect PhD theses in
the field of social capital and related topics.
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| Postgraduate programs and scholarships |
This section collects all the information I acquire on graduate schools such as Phd and master programs, grants and scholarships, seminars series and so on.
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Post Doc & Doctoral Fellowships in Experimental / Behavioral Economics at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala).
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Research Fellow, Assistant Professor, and Post-doc Positionsat the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
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Tenure Track, Assistant Professor, and Post-doc Positions: Microeconomics, Public Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the
Department of Economics, Maastricht University.
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| Handbook of Social Capital |
The Handbook of Social Capital, edited by Gert Tinggaard Svendsen e Gunnar Lind H. Svendsen, approaches the study of social capital, balancing the ‘troika’ of
sociology, political science and economics. It includes contributions from new Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom and, among others, Martin Paldam, Fabio Sabatini and Eric Uslaner.
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| Next conferences |
IAREP Workshop on: The economic psychology of giving, public goods and leadership, in Canterbury, UK, 13-14 November 2009.
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Global Recession: Regional Impacts on Housing, Jobs, Health and Wellbeing, in London, UK, 27 November 2009.
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Monash-Deakin Conference on Economic Growth and Development, in Melbourne, Australia, 30 November 2009.
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From GDP to Well-Being: Economics on the Road to Sustainability, in Ancona, Italy, 3-5 December 2009.
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XXXIV Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, in Valencia, Spain, 10-12 December 2009.
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| Latest conference announcements |
Evolution: Intersecting Natural and Social Sciences, in Siena, Italy, 10-13 December 2009. The deadline for submitting an abstract has expired.
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The Fifth Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, in Rome, Italy, 14-18 December 2009. The deadline for submitting a paper has expired.
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First International Workshop on Cultural Commons, in Turin, Italy, 29-30 January 2010. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 20th of November 2009.
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Economics of Culture, Institutions, and Crime, in Milan, Italy, 20-22 January 2010. The submission deadline has expired.
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Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good, in Rennes, France, 7-8 January 2010. The deadline for paper submission has expired.
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1st Joint DIW Berlin/IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research, in Bonn, Germany, 25-26 February 2010. The deadline for submittin an abstract is 30 October 2009.
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Social Capital in Practice, in Mellieha, Malta, 7-10 May 2010. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 February 2010.
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The Charismatic Principle in Economic and Civil Life:
History, Theory and Good Practice, in Loppiano, Florence, Italy, 28-29 May 2010. The deadline for abstract submission is 30 January 2010.
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Constructing Identity in and around Organizations, in Rhodes, Greece, 11-13 June 2010. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 January 2010.
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Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) Annual Conference, in San Diego, CA., USA, 2-5 August 2010. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2010.
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Not only social capital
Rankings of world Universities and Departments
This section collects links to web sites reporting rankings
of world universities and departments. Selected rankings are
based on criteria like research publications.
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Rankings of scholarly journals
This section collects rankings of social science peer-reviewed journals based on some poular indexes of their impact on the scientific research.
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SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) 2009 World Report
The SIR 2009 World Report shows a ranking with more than 2000 of the best worldwide research institutions and organizations whose output surpass 100 scholarly publications during 2007.
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The Geography
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This section catalogues social capital studies according to
the particular country to which the main focus is devoted. At the present time, the section is under construction.
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SCG is edited by
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Business, Business & Finance, Economics,
Political Science, Social Psychology, Sociology.
Upcoming conferences
Global Recession: Regional Impacts on Housing, Jobs, Health and Wellbeing, London, UK, November 2009.
The economic psychology of giving, public goods and leadership, in Canterbury, UK, November 2009.
Economic Growth and Development, in Melbourne, Australia, November 2009.
From GDP to Well-Being: Economics on the Road to Sustainability, in Ancona, Italy, December 2009.
XXXIV Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, in Valencia, Spain, December 2009.
Evolution: Intersecting Natural and Social Sciences, in Siena, Italy, December 2009.
Internet and the Economics of Networks, in Rome, Italy, December 2009.
Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good, in Rennes, France, January 2010.
Economics of Culture, Institutions, and Crime, in Milan, Italy, January 2010.
1st Joint DIW Berlin/IZA Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research, in Bonn, February 2010.
Social Capital in Practice, in Mellieha, Malta, May 2010.
The Charismatic Principle in Economic and Civil Life:
History, Theory and Good Practice, in Florence, Italy, May 2010.
Constructing Identity in and around Organizations, in Rhodes, Greece, June 2010.
Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Annual Conference in San Diego, CA, August 2010.
Other Events on
social capital and related topics
Other resources for social sciences
Working papers
Databases and E-Journals
Social sciences departments
Useful links
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