Tag Archives : Social Capital
Individualism and Society
Interpersonal trust and individualism go hand in hand.
read more...Joe Biden, Basic Income, and Societal Capital
A nation that trades the work ethic for universal handouts is taking a very risky gamble.
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Norway’s Version of the Resource Curse
Norway would be in even better shape if the fiscal burden of government wasn’t so onerous.
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Nordic Nations Show How Welfare and Redistribution Weaken the Human Spirit
A new book exposes the faults in the Nordic welfare state model.
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Brazil and Mitchell’s Theorem of Societal Collapse
Excessive government has gotten Brazil in big, big trouble.
read more...Should Welfare Dependency Be Shameful or Discomforting?
Should dependency really be easier and more respectable?
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Social Capital, Culture, Markets, and Institutions
Scholars have wrangled with the questions of social capital for centuries. Can we make sense of it?
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America’s Superior Social Capital
Social attitudes play a large role in determining a nation’s long-run prosperity. But how easily can they be changed?
read more...The Miracle of Modern-Day Prosperity…and the Ideas and Policies that Made it Happen
Why are some nations rich and other nations poor? What has enabled some nations to escape poverty while others continue to languish? And if we want to help poor nations prosper, what’s the right recipe? Since I’m a public finance economist, I’m tempted to say a flat tax and small government are an elixir for prosperity, but those policies […]
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