A walk through the social capital literature from an economic perspective

作者：Felis Rota Marta^*

来源：Revista de Historia Economica, 2011, 29(3): 461-475.

DOI：10.1017/S0212610911000164

• social capital
• economic thought
• economic growth
• financial development
• microeconomic foundations

This essay considers the literature on the topic of social capital in relation to the economic science, and opens new perspectives of research in this area. This essay starts with a walk through the history of economic thought that has influenced social capital literature. Afterwards, the reader will find a discussion on different perspectives of research that have been followed up to now and some others in relation with the microeconomic foundations of the concept of social capital, and its connexion with economic growth and finance.

• 出版日期2011-12