Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142614 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
EERI Research Paper Series No. 07/2011
Publisher: 
Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels
Abstract: 
We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological progress in the erosion of social capital. Under certain parameters, the relationship between technological progress and social capital can take the shape of an inverted U curve. We show the circumstances allowing the economy to follow trajectories where the stock of social capital grows endogenously and unboundedly.
Subjects: 
Economic growth
social capital
social norms
technological progress
JEL: 
O33
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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