May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 30m
English
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Chapter 3
Measuring Social Capital—How Communities Affect Growth
A fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
Desmond Tutu
A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members—among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy.
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace
Just as we plant crops infertile soil, we want to establish our business in a fertile social environment.
Paul Michaels, former CEO, Mars, Incorporated
Social capital, as we define it in a ...