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2nd EMES International Conference on Social Enterprise
Photo by Fabio Sabatini

The conference is organized by EMES European Research Network, EURICSE (European Research Institute on Cooperatives and Social Enterprises) and
IRIS Network, and will take place in Trento, Italy, on 1-4 July 2009.
Follow the link to see the draft program and further details.

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Latest books
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.

It Is not What You Know But Whom You Know: Expanding Student Social Capital Networks of Knowledge through Critical Pedagogy, by David Keith Truscello.

Social Capital Vol. I and II, edited by K.R. Gupta, Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and Prasenjit Maiti.

Trust and Transitions. Social Capital in a Changing World, edited by Joseph D. Lewandowski and Milan Znoj.

Sport and Social Capital, by Matthew Nicholson and Russell Hoye.

Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life, by Eric Uslaner.

Civic Engagement and Civic Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective, Special Issue of Policy Studies edited by Marc Morjé Howard and Dietlind Stolle.

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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, The Fragility of Social Capital.

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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4 year PhD Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Scholarship at the University of Glasgow. The deadline for applications is Friday 14th August 2009.
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Advances in the behavioral and experimental approach to the economics of organizations, firms, contracts and the economic analysis of the law, in Arco, Trento, Italy, 19–25 July 2009.
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Next conferences
2nd EMES International Conference on Social Enterprise, in Trento, Italy, 1-4 July 2009.
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The Shadow Economy, Tax Evasion and Social Norms, in Münster, Germany, 23-26 July 2009.
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Latest conference announcements

Civil Society, Social Capital and Economic Development, in Stockholm, Sweden, 3-4 September 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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8th Tiber Symposium on Psychology and Economics, in Tilburg, The Netherlands, 4 September 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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11th Conference of the International Network for Economic Research, in Stirling, Scotland, UK, 4-6 September 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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8th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, in Cape Town, South Africa, 8-10 September 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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The Social Dimension of Religion in Civil Society, in Stockholm, Sweden, 17-19 September 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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2009 Sweden conference on Urban Policies and Social Capital, in Lindkoping and Gothenburg, Sweden, 24-26 September 2009. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 10 July 2009.
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Social Capital, a call for papers for a special issue of the The International Journal of Social Inquiry. The deadline for paper submission is 1 October 2009.
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Inclusive Growth, Innovation and Technological Change: education, social capital and sustainable development, in Dakar, Senegal, 6-8 October 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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The 3rd Annual Copenhagen Conference on Partnerships, in Copenhagen, Denmark, 22-23 October 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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50a Riunione Scientifica Annuale della Società Italiana degli Economisti, in Rome, 22-24 October 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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Global Recession: Regional Impacts on Housing, Jobs, Health and Wellbeing, in London, UK, 27 November 2009. The deadline for abstract submission is 30 June 2009.
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From GDP to Well-Being: Economics on the Road to Sustainability, in Ancona, Italy, 3-5 December 2009. The deadline for submitting a long abstract is 31 July 2009.
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XXXIV Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, in Valencia, Spain, 10-12 December 2009. The deadline for submission has expired.
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Evolution: Intersecting Natural and Social Sciences, in Siena, Italy, 10-13 December 2009. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 30 June 2009.
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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 is 15 July 2009.
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Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good, in Rennes, France, 7-8 January 2010. The deadline for paper submission is 30 September 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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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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The geography of social capital   The Geography of social capital studies
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.

:: Africa
:: Asia
:: Central America
:: China
:: Eastern Europe
:: India

  :: Italy
:: Latin America
:: Northern America
:: Oceania
:: United States
:: Western Europe
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The social capital reading list
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Basic concepts
::What is social capital
::Against social capital
::Measuring social capital

Social capital and
the economy

::Social capital at the
firm level

::Game theory and
social capital
::Social capital and
the labour market

::Social capital and
human capital

::Social capital,
knowledge and innovation


Social capital and institutions
::Social capital and political participation
::Social capital and political institutions' performance
The creation of SC
::Civil society and SC
::Social capital and the state
::The challenges of multiculturalism

Social capital
and well-being

::Social capital, social interactions and happiness
::Social capital and health
::Social capital and education
::SC, public services
and the welfare state

::Social capital, crime
and urban welfare
::Social capital and
the environment
::Empirical studies on social capital and well-being

Social capital and transition
::SC and institutional transition
::SC and economic transition
Social capital and development
in advanced economies

::Social capital and
economic growth

::Social capital and
local development

::Social capital and
rural development
::Empirical studies on SC and economic growth in HDCs and LDCs

Social capital and development
in low income countries

::Social capital and
poor's life conditions

::Social capital and
rural development

::Microcredit and SC
::Development assistance
and social capital

::Other studies on social capital and poverty
 
 

The editor
SCG is edited by
Fabio Sabatini
, Research Fellow in economics...
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Upcoming conferences

2nd EMES International Conference on Social Enterprise, in Trento, Italy, July 2009.

The Shadow Economy, Tax Evasion and Social Norms
, in Münster, Germany, July 2009.

Civil Society, Social Capital and Economic Development, in Stockholm, Sweden, September 2009.

8th Tiber Symposium on Psychology and Economics, in Tilburg, The Netherlands, September 2009.

11th INFER Conference, in Stirling, Scotland, September 2009.

Urban Policies and Social Capital, in Lindkoping, Sweden, September 2009.

The Social Dimension of Religion in Civil Society, in Stockholm, Sweden, September 2009.

8th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, in Cape Town, South Africa, September 2009.

Inclusive Growth, Innovation and Technological Change: education, social capital and sustainable development, in Dakar, Senegal, October 2009.

The 3rd Annual Copenhagen Conference on Partnerships, in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2009.

50a Riunione Scientifica Annuale della Società Italiana degli Economisti, in Rome, Italy, October 2009.

Global Recession: Regional Impacts on Housing, Jobs, Health and Wellbeing, London, UK, 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.

Social Capital in Practice, in Mellieha, Malta, May 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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Social Capital Gateway
Edited by Fabio Sabatini
University of Siena