A new approach to measure social capital using game-theoretic techniques

Although the notion of social capital has been extensively studied in various bodies of the literature, there is no universally accepted definition or measure of this concept. In this article, we discuss a new approach for measuring social capital which builds upon cooperative game theory. The new approach not only turns out to be a natural tool for modeling social capital, but also captures various aspects of this phenomenon that are not captured by other approaches.

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