Is Social Capital Always Such a Good Thing?

Social capital is a toolist, like a hammer, and you can use it on a nail. The idea really goes back to shanka and to some political scientists that he knewand they pointed out that germany looks like the kind of place, especially into a germany, that has an awfl lot of social capital. Germany has address books, like many other countries in the interwar period. They list the diffe clubs and associations. Every club and association has to register with the local law court,. And we just started counting, and we realized that those places that had an unusually high density of clubs and associations were the ones wher na membership spread particularly fast. N