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A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric - Andrew Leigh
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Decline of Social Capital
I want to push back on the concept of social capital in three ways. I don't think social capital is morphing. It's actually declining. Take the friends estimate. It's not clear to me that the halving and the number of close friendships people have is made up for by the fact that people have Facebook friends now when before they had none. What we have instead is questions which ask, are you an active member of any organisation? Those figures show a decline alongside the membership-based estimates. We do try and make sure that we're not just simply picking up results that are driven by particular organisations. For example, you'd be worried if all we had was membership figures for
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