The paper benefited from comments by participants at conferences in Ancona, Bento Gonçalves, Paris and Santander and at seminars held in Forlì, Rome and Trento. Mauro Sodini acknowledges that this work has been performed within the activity of the PRIN project ‘Local interactions and global dynamics in economics and finance: models and tools’, MIUR, Italy. We are grateful to two anonymous referees whose comments allowed a substantial improvement of the paper. Materials for the study of social capital, economic growth and technology are retrievable at the Social Capital Gateway, a website edited by the corresponding author of this article at the address http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org. Needless to say, the usual caveats apply.
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Original Article
Economic Growth, Technological Progress and Social Capital: The Inverted U Hypothesis
Article first published online: 29 JAN 2013
DOI: 10.1111/meca.12007
© 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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How to Cite
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F. and Sodini, M. (2013), Economic Growth, Technological Progress and Social Capital: The Inverted U Hypothesis. Metroeconomica. doi: 10.1111/meca.12007
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The paper benefited from comments by participants at conferences in Ancona, Bento Gonçalves, Paris and Santander and at seminars held in Forlì, Rome and Trento. Mauro Sodini acknowledges that this work has been performed within the activity of the PRIN project ‘Local interactions and global dynamics in economics and finance: models and tools’, MIUR, Italy. We are grateful to two anonymous referees whose comments allowed a substantial improvement of the paper. Materials for the study of social capital, economic growth and technology are retrievable at the Social Capital Gateway, a website edited by the corresponding author of this article at the address http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org. Needless to say, the usual caveats apply.
Publication History
- Article first published online: 29 JAN 2013
- Manuscript Revised: OCT 2012
- Manuscript Received: OCT 2011
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