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A matter of trust: what is the correlation between government regulation and social capital?

Publication: The American (Washington, DC)
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A matter of trust: what is the correlation between government regulation and social capital?(THE AMERICAN SCENE)(Brief article)

Article Excerpt
In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital," report economists Philippe Aghion and Andrei Shleifer of Harvard University, Yann Algan of the Paris School of Economics, and Pierre Cahuc of the Ecole Polytechnique. "The correlation works for a range of measures of social...



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