Is social capital really capital?

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-21

  Robison, Lindon J ^a   Allan Schmid, A ^a   Siles, Marcelo E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural capital; Decay (maintenance); Durability; Flexibility; Human capital; Investment (disinvestment); Organizational capital; Physical financial capital; Reliability; Social capital; Substitutability; Sympathy; Transformation capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036521852     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760110127074     Document Type: Review

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