Comments on: Social Cohesion Bleg http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/ The Sweet Release of Reason Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tom http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10207 Tom Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:27:30 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10207 Tyler Cowen has a nice article about Putnam on his faculty page. Tyler Cowen has a nice article about Putnam on his faculty page.

]]> By: Tom http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10210 Tom Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:27:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10210 Tyler Cowen has a nice article about Putnam on his faculty page. Tyler Cowen has a nice article about Putnam on his faculty page.

]]> By: Will Wilkinson http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10206 Will Wilkinson Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:42:01 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10206 Thanks, Will! Thanks, Will!

]]> By: Will Wilkinson http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10209 Will Wilkinson Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10209 Thanks, Will! Thanks, Will!

]]> By: Will Ambrosini http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10205 Will Ambrosini Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:33:48 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10205 There's the social capital literature; start at <a href="http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/" rel="nofollow">this website</a> (in particular <a href="http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/NV-eng-against.htm" rel="nofollow">this reading list</a> and especially <a href="http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/fischer/fischer_pdf/Bowling%20Alone%20-%20What%27s%20the%20Score_Soc%20Net_2005.pdf" rel="nofollow">this paper</a>). "Trust" does well in <a href="http://www.jstor.org/view/00335533/di981869/98p00466/0" rel="nofollow">cross-country growth regressions</a>, but Putnam's measures of group membership don't perform well. Also, I don't know anyone who has studied this formally, but its evident from the U.S. that growth hasn't suffered while formal group membership (by Putnam's reckoning) has declined. There’s the social capital literature; start at this website (in particular this reading list and especially this paper). “Trust” does well in cross-country growth regressions, but Putnam’s measures of group membership don’t perform well.

Also, I don’t know anyone who has studied this formally, but its evident from the U.S. that growth hasn’t suffered while formal group membership (by Putnam’s reckoning) has declined.

]]> By: Will Ambrosini http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10208 Will Ambrosini Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:33:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2007/06/27/social-cohesion-bleg/#comment-10208 There's the social capital literature; start at <a href="http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/" rel="nofollow">this website</a> (in particular <a href="http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/NV-eng-against.htm" rel="nofollow">this reading list</a> and especially <a href="http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/fischer/fischer_pdf/Bowling%20Alone%20-%20What%27s%20the%20Score_Soc%20Net_2005.pdf" rel="nofollow">this paper</a>). "Trust" does well in <a href="http://www.jstor.org/view/00335533/di981869/98p00466/0" rel="nofollow">cross-country growth regressions</a>, but Putnam's measures of group membership don't perform well. Also, I don't know anyone who has studied this formally, but its evident from the U.S. that growth hasn't suffered while formal group membership (by Putnam's reckoning) has declined. There’s the social capital literature; start at this website (in particular this reading list and especially this paper). “Trust” does well in cross-country growth regressions, but Putnam’s measures of group membership don’t perform well.

Also, I don’t know anyone who has studied this formally, but its evident from the U.S. that growth hasn’t suffered while formal group membership (by Putnam’s reckoning) has declined.

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