tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687417.post5820979575857603743..comments2023-09-14T16:06:48.510+02:00Comments on Biopolitical: Elinor Ostrom and social capitalBiopoliticalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16045874185251304861noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687417.post-9806356205506629602010-12-12T22:09:52.823+01:002010-12-12T22:09:52.823+01:00Are "old boy networks" and "mistrus...Are "old boy networks" and "mistrust of outsiders" actually abolished in modern society?<br /><br />No, they aren't.<br /><br />How many Goldman Sachs boys have circulated through the US government?<br /><br />Too many.Marcelinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687417.post-59416200653497943162010-12-11T14:01:46.465+01:002010-12-11T14:01:46.465+01:00While it's important to have criteria, it'...While it's important to have criteria, it's also important to match theory and reality, I think we need to be clear. Are "old boy networks" and "mistrust of outsiders" actually abolished in modern society?<br />Old boy networks? How many Goldman Sachs boys have circulated through the US government? <br /> Sociologist CW Mills wrote The Power Elite by 1960, and more recently G Domhoff wrote Who Rules America? which highlight existing networks. <br /> "Mistrust of outsiders"? Conventional economists make little or no reference to real world studies of human behavior such as in psychology, sociology, or anthropology, as Ostrom in fact did.<br /> Corporations have railroaded their way to concentrated power over decades through monopolistic practices and political influence, treated in articles like Kroszner and Stratmann's 2005 article in the Journal of Law and Economics.Mark Rego-Monteirohttp://www.geo.coopnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11687417.post-15498494302645166332010-12-06T12:04:12.889+01:002010-12-06T12:04:12.889+01:00happening on this now, through Google. Couldn'...happening on this now, through Google. Couldn't disagree more with what you say. The places with low levels of social capital are less happy, poorer, mostly less democratic. <br /><br />And they are ruled precisely by even smaller cliques, from the top down.<br /><br />Not everything is a conservative conspiracy.xcaucasushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601943503579408752noreply@blogger.com