Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43471 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 2010,100
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital both support just one of the two productions at the expenses of the other. However, trajectories are possible where technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a 'socially sustainable' economic growth.
Subjects: 
Technology
Economic Growth
Relational Goods
Social Participation
Social Capital
JEL: 
O33
J22
O41
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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