• Going out, a wide circle of acquaintances - cultural capital and social capital - are key factors in determining your social class, according to the survey.

    BBC: Class calculator: A US view of the class system

  • Anne represents what some think is a more realistic way to beat the gangs using the networks that bind communities together and improve the quality of life for everyone - social capital.

    BBC: Taking Back the Streets

  • "They're all quite interested in talking to the tech industry, " said Mr. Wilson, whose venture-capital firm was an early backer of social-media companies like Twitter Inc.

    WSJ: Giving Politics a Hack

  • Housing charity Shelter has recently warned again of the impact of the changes on the capital's social make-up.

    BBC: Boris Johnson quizzed by London Assembly

  • Swings in cross-border capital flows all too frequently dominate a range of monetary, regulatory, fiscal- and social-policy decisions because the broad-brush approach also characterises many international investors in Africa.

    ECONOMIST: Letters | The

  • Communities with less social capital have higher teenage pregnancy, child suicide, pre-natal mortality and crime rates.

    BBC: A tale of two schools

  • The mistake here was simple: President Bush never put forward a single, comprehensive plan to transform Social Security from a generational-conflict-fostering economic drain to a capital-generating, wealth-creating, economic-illiteracy-reducing, better-benefits-for-all mechanism.

    FORBES: Mitigating Inflation's Fallout

  • For assets that a family can't keep, planners use the term "social capital": money that can go only to the IRS--or to charity.

    FORBES: Finding the inner philanthropist

  • Because in the developed world, social overhead capital produces too many bridges to nowhere, too many non-jobs with long term unfinanced liabilities attached, bureaucracy and the regulation of everything that moves.

    FORBES: Listen Up Bernanke, QE Is Not The Answer

  • Decision Economics, Inc. (DE) undertook an economic study to examine the potential effects of various scenarios where the legislated tax-rate increases on income, dividends, capital gains and social security take place.

    FORBES: The Horrific Accident Awaiting Us Over The Fiscal Cliff

  • Mr Gove argued that it was poorer families that had the most to gain as "the accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility".

    BBC: Gove sets out 'core knowledge' curriculum plans

  • Al Gore wants the JWP index because it gives him options beyond just being a candidate - credibility, the power to influence the masses of people is social capital in the sense that he can eventually save that up and spend it.

    NPR: Roundtable: Rice Takes Heat, Graduation Gap

  • Typical of this group is Social Venture Partners, a Seattle-based fund that is trying to apply the principles of venture capital to charity.

    ECONOMIST: The gospel of wealth

  • So social entrepreneurs providing cleantech services in Gridless countries look to other capital sources like grants or low-interest loans from governments and foundations.

    FORBES: Why Solar Makes More Economic Sense In Tanzania Than In Florida

  • Millions of commuters and visitors to London will be able to get online at Tube stations and find their way around the capital with up-to-the-minute TfL travel information, access social media whilst they wait for their next train on the station platform or browse the web to discover the very best London has to offer this summer.

    ENGADGET: Virgin Media names the first 80 tube stations to get WiFi hotspots

  • Impact investing refers to the intentional use of investment capital to create positive social and environmental outcomes along with financial returns by investing in for-profit social enterprises.

    FORBES: Philanthropy, Now Yielding Financial Returns

  • It could give Silicon Valley a chance to address the problems that threaten its long-term ability to remain the world capital of high-tech: an overburdened infrastructure, skyrocketing house prices and increasing social inequality.

    ECONOMIST: A dip in the valley

  • Avoiding special incentives for physical capital or improving property rights and the pricing of natural resources can generate resources for redressing social under-investment.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus: Why quality matters | The

  • Armed with a master's in social work, Morris Shechtman specializes in "human capital development, " a term the L.A.-based counselor uses to describe his brand of therapy.

    FORBES: Californians Screamin'

  • It also called for "modest" business tax cuts and urged the speeding-up of planned capital spending projects, such as for the building and refurbishment of schools and for social housing.

    BBC: CBI details 10-step economy plan

  • Early this year he began to pour his political capital into a plan to reform Social Security (pensions) by letting workers save some of their nest-eggs in personal accounts, rather than paying as they work for current pensioners.

    ECONOMIST: Seeking a cure for the hurricane hangover | The

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