Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 417-480). 2011
This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...
