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This book focuses on the concepts of social capital, corporate social responsibility, and economic development in relation to economic theory of institutions and behavioural economics. It also takes a macroeconomic and empirical approach, on the relationship between social capital, ethical behaviour and economic development.

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Author:   L. Sacconi ,  G. Antoni
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2011
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9781349314058

ISBN 10:   1349314056
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Lorenzo Sacconi and Giacomo Degli Antoni PART I: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THEECONOMIC THEORY OF INSTITUTIONS, INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES AND SOCIAL NORMS A Plea for Unconventional Economics; Bruno S. Fey A Rawlsian View of CSR and the Game Theory of its Implementation (III): Conformism, Equilibrium Refinement and Selection; Lorenzo Sacconi Trustful Banking: A Psychological Game-Theoretical Model of Fiduciary Interactions in Micro-credit Programs; Vittorio Pelligra The Relationship Between Competition and Trust: An Essay in an Historical and Theoretical Perspective; Sergio Beraldo and Gilberto Turati PART II: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A GAME THEORETICAL AND NETWORK ANALYSIS APPROACH Linking Economic and Social-Exchange Games: From the Community Norm to CSR; Masahiko Aoki Social Capital in Networks of Relations; Steffen Lippert Modeling Cognitive Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility as Preconditions for Sustainable Networks of Relations; Giacomo Degli Antoni and Lorenzo Sacconi PART III: THE EOCNOMIC EFFECT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND OTHER REGARDING PREFERENCES: EXPERIMENTAL AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE Social Distance, Cooperation and Other-regarding Preferences: A New Approach Based on the Theory of Relational Goods; Leonardo Becchetti, Giacomo Degli Antoni and Marco Faillo Generalized Trust: An Experimental Perspective; Gianluca Grimalda and Luigi Mittone Testing the Distributive Effects of Social Enterprises: The Case of Italy; Carlo Borzaga, Sara Depedri and Ermanno Tortia PART IV: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE MACRO APPROACH Social Assets, Technical Progress and Long-Run Welfare; Stefano Bartolini and Luigi Bonatti Generalized Trust: The Macro Perspective; Martin Paldam The Local Path to Sustainable Development: Social Capital in Naples; Raffaella Nanetti, Robert Leonardi and Catalina Holguin

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LORENZO SACCONI is Professor of Economics, Unicredit Chair in economic ethics and corporate social responsibility at the Department of Economics of Trento University, and Director of EconomEtica, Inter-University Centre of Research at the University of Milano–Bicocca, Italy. GIACOMO DEGLI ANTONI is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Research Fellow at EconomEtica, Italy.

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