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Social capital is the key to community development
- mif 5y agoJane Jacobs‘ book mentioned in the article is one that I highly recommend („The Death and Life of Great American Cities“; another one is „Cities and the Wealth of Nations“, here, if I remember correctly the theory is That cities are the drivers of economic growth, not countries. She even argues that cities have been the starting point of the agricultural revolution). There is so much thought-provoking material in those books. Blew my mind, when I read them five or so years ago.
- fallingfrog 5y agoThe project of present day capitalism is to put a wall around social capital and in fact all relationships or social bonds and all knowledge as well so they can be owned and traded and sold. You see this with Facebook, with non compete agreements, with reit’s, with company towns, etc