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Skeptical Views on Social Capital
Skeptical Views
on Social Capital
This section collects works of authors skeptical about the usefulness
of the concept of social capital for social sciences. Great part
of these studies belongs to the field of economics and addresses
problems like the difficulties of measurement, the shortcomings
of the empirical research, the role of social capital in the World
Bank's research activity, and the opportunity to consider social
capital as another form of capital, together with human and phisical
capital.
• Essential readings
• Furhter readings
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Essential Readings
•
Arrow,
K. (1999), Observations on Social Capital, in Dasgupta, P. and Serageldin,
I. (eds), Social
Capital. A Multifaceted Perspective, The World Bank, Washington
D.C.
•
Durlauf, S.N., Fafchamps, M. (2004), Social
Capital, The Centre for The Study of African Economies Working
Paper Series, No. 214, The Berkeley Economic Press.
•
Fine, B. (2001), Social
Capital versus Social Theory. Political Economy and Social Science
at the Turn of the Millenium, London and New York, Routledge.
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Harriss, J. (2002), Depoliticizing
Development: the World Bank and social capital, London, Anthem
Press.
• Solow, R. (1999), Notes on Social Capital
and Economic Performance, in Dasgupta, P. and Serageldin, I. (eds),
Social
Capital. A Multifaceted perspective, The World Bank, Washington
D.C.
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Further Readings
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Bowles, S., Gintis, H. (2000), Social
Capital and Community Governance, University of Massachussets
Department of Economics working paper.
• Cleaver F. (2003), The inequality of social capital: agency,
association and the reproduction of chronic poverty, Paper presented
at the conference Staying
Poor: Chronic Poverty and Development Policy, University of
Manchester 7 – 9 April 2003.
• Das, R.J. (2004), Social
capital and poverty of the wage-labour class: problems with the
social capital theory, Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 27.
• Dasgupta, P. (2002), Social
Capital and Economic Performance: Analytics, University of Cambridge
and Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm,
mimeo.
•
DeFilippis, J. (2001), The
Myth of Social Capital in Community Development, Housing Policy
Development, Volume 12, Issue 4, 781-806.
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Durlauf, S.N. (1999), The
Case "Against" Social Capital, Focus, Vol. 20, N.3,
Fall 1999.
•
Durlauf, S.N, (2002), On
the empirics of social capital, University of Wisconsin, Department
of Economics, mimeo.
•
Durlauf, S.N. (2002), The
Empirics of Social Capital: Some Skeptical Thoughts, Social
Development Strategy Working Paper, The World Bank.
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Edwards, B., Foley, M., Diani, M. (eds.) (2001), Beyond
Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative
Perspective, Hanover, NH, University Press of New England.
•
Encarnacion, O.G. (2003), The
Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation
in Spain and Brazil, New York, Palgrave MacMillan.
•
Englebert, P. (2001), The
World Bank and the Unsuspected Virtues of Social Capital, Unpublished
English version of “La Banque Mondiale et les vertus insoupçonnées
du capital social", in Gilbert Rist (ed.), Les mots du pouvoir
: sens et non-sens de la rhétorique internationale, Paris,
Presses Universitaires de France, 2002, 83-100.
•
Fine, B. (1998), From Bourdieu to Becker: Economics Confronts
the Social Sciences, International Papers in Political Economy,
5(3), 1-43.
•
Fine, B. (1999), The
Developmental State Is Dead - Long Live Social Capital?, Development
and Change, Vol. 30, Issue 1, Page 1 (January 1999).
•
Fine, B. (2002), Globalisation
and Development: The Imperative of Political Economy, Preliminary
Draft for the Conference “Towards
a New Political Economy of Development: Globalisation and Governance”,
Sheffield, July, 2002.
•
Fine, B. (2003), Review
Essay of: Christian Grootaert and Thierry van Bastelaer (eds),The
Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment,
Journal of Agrarian Change, October 2003, vol. 3, no. 4, 586-603(18).
•
Fine, B. (2004), Social
Capital for Africa?, Transformation: Critical Perspectives on
Southern Africa - 53, 2004, 29-52.
•
Fischer, C.S. (2001), Bowling
Alone: What's the Score?, Paper presented to "Author Meets
Critic: Putnam, Bowling Alone" session of the meetings of the
American Sociological Association, Anaheim, California, August 2001.
•
Foley, M.W., Edwards, B. (1997), Escape from Politics? Social
Theory and the Social Capital Debate, American Behavioral Scientist
40, 5 (March/April 1997), 550-561.
•
Foley, M.W., Edwards, B. (1999), Is
It Time to Disinvest in Social Capital?, Journal of Public Policy
19, 2, 199-231.
•
Gidwani, V. (2002), New
Theory or New Dogma? A Tale of Social Capital and Economic Development
from Gujarat, India, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Volume
37, Number 2, 1 March 2002, pp. 83-112(30).
•
Harriss, J. (2001), Public Action and the Dialectics
of Decentralisation: Against the Myth of Social Capital as "The
Missing Link in Development", Social Scientist 29, No. 11-12
(2001), 25-40.
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Harriss, J. (2001), Social
Capital Construction and the Consolidation of Civil Society,
Development Studies Institute, Working Paper N. 01-16, London School
of Economics.
•
Lemann, N. (1996), Kicking
in Grouops, Atlantic Monthly, April 1996, 22-24.
•
Manski, C. (2000), Economic
Analysis of Social Interactions, NBER Working Paper No. w7580.
•
Markusen, A.R. (1999), Fuzzy
Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigor and
Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies, Regional Studies,
Vol. 33, No. 9: 869-884.
•
Molyneux, M. (2002), Gender
and Silences of Social Capital: Lesson from Latin America, Development
and Change 33(2), 167-188.
•
Morrow, G. (ed) (2001), An
Appropriate Capital-isation? Questioning Social Capital, Gender
Institute, Research in Progress Series, Issue 1, October 2001 (special
issue), London School of Economics.
•
Ponthieux, S. (2004), The
concept of social capital : a critical review, Paper presented
at the 10th
ACN (Association de comptabilité nationale) Conference on
National Accounting, Paris, 21-23 January 2004.
•
Portes, A., Landolt, P. (1996), The
Downside of Social Capital, The American Prospect no. 26 (May-June
1996), 18-21, 94.
• Quibria, M.G. (2003), The
Puzzle of Social Capital. A Critical Review, Asian Development
Review, Volume 20, Number 2.
• Schuurman, F.J. (2002), Social
Capital and the Post Washington Consensus, Paper presented at
the
Conference “Towards
a New Political Economy of Development: Globalisation and Governance”,
Sheffield, July, 2002.
• Smith,
S.S. (2002), It
May Be Social, but Why Is It Capital? The Social Construction of
Social Capital and the Politics of Language, Politics &
Society, Vol. 30, No. 1, 149-186 (2002).
• Sobel, Joel, Can
We Trust Social Capital?, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol.
XL (March 2002), 139-154.
• Solow, R.M. (1995), But Verify,
The New Republic (September 11), 36-39, Review of F. Fukuyama (1995),
Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, New York,
Free Press.
• Solow, R.M. (1997), Tell me again
what we are talking about?, Stern Business Magazine 4(1).
• Streeten, P. (2002), Reflections
on Social and Antisocial Capital, Journal of Human Development,
1 February 2002, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 7-22(16).
• Tarrow, S. (1996), Making Social Science Work Across Space
and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam's Making Democracy
Work, American Political Science Review 90, 389-397.
• Wilks, A., Lefrançois,
F. (2002), Blinding
with Science or Encouraging Debate? How World Bank Analysis Determines
PRSP Policies, The Bretton Wood Project.
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