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==Index and Glossary==
There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles [[Economics/Related Articles|here]], and a glossary of economic terms [[Economics/Glossary|here]].


whether or not co-operation takes root will
See also the [[Politics/Index|'''index to the politics articles ''']].
depend on the pre-existing set of social and political relations in the community and on
the degree of inequality and polarization suffered by society


The topic of the creation of social capital has since been explored at several levels. At the empirical level there have been a number of statistical analyses of the recently-collected data. One such study identified the factors affecting the development of trust as income per person, income distribution, government effectiveness, social cohesion and education
[[User:Nick_Gardner#Methodology|methodology]]
<ref> Paul Zak and Steven Knack: "Trust and Growth", ''Economic Journal'', April 2001</ref>.


<ref>[http://www.econ.ubc.ca/fpatrick/franzabofinal.pdf:  Patrick Francois and  Jan Zabojnik "Trust, Social Capital and Economic Development", ''Journal of the European Economic Association'', 2005]</ref> (providing a possible explanation of the difficulty of successfully transferring developed countries' production methods to developing countries).
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|"''The European Union is something ...
  very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights.''"


 
:Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating  President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
 
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The size of the resource, technology for
exclusion and exploitation of the resource and similar gritty details affect whether
cooperation in commons management arises (Ostrom, 1990: 202-204).
Ostrom, E.
1990 Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective
Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1998 A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective
Action. American Political Science Review 92: 1-22. Scientific
findings again correspond well to personal experience. Sometimes we cooperate
enthusiastically, sometimes reluctantly, and sometimes not at all. People vary
considerably in their willingness to cooperate even under the same environmental
conditions.
• Institutions matter. People from different societies behave differently because their
habits have
 
[http://www.nopecjournal.org/NOPEC_1996_a10.pdf]Fehr, E. and J.-R. Tyran
1996 Institutions and Reciprocal Fairness. Nordic Journal of Political Economy (punishment)
 
 
 
 
Social Capital: Explaining Its Origins and Effects on
Government Performance
CARLES BOIX AND DANIEL N. POSNER British Journal of Political Science (1998)
 
 
Ostrom, Elinor, 1990, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective
Action (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press).
 
 
 
 
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Index and Glossary

There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles here, and a glossary of economic terms here.

See also the index to the politics articles .

methodology

"The European Union is something ...
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights."
Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.