The authors motivate social capital arguments at the world-system level through the analysis of world-trade flows and nation status, 1965 to 1980, with specific attention to contextual changes in global trade and stratified effects on participation in trade within it. They generate measures of...

Recent network arguments advance theory on inequality and comparative advantage by using structural autonomy to investigate the effects of social capital on performance. These network approaches update the theory and methodology of centrality analysis, but at the same time are subject to...