March 31, 2003
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Anonymous Economist Ponders Income Disparities In The U.S.
A Reader Reports Academic Evidence On Diversity vs. Social Capital
From: Robin Corkery
mpalouse8040@attbi.com
If you are not already familiar
with them, I recommend the studies of Dora L. Costa &
Matthew Kahn on the decline in social capital:
Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1988 and
Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An
Economist's Perspective. [PDF]
Both of them explicitly mention
racial diversity as a
cause of the
decline in social capital over the recent
generations. Though one can almost sense their
apprehension in bringing up the subject, they clearly
recognize multiculturalism's corrosive effect on
cohesiveness within a nation.
Access to the
papers can be gained through Costa's website:
http://web.mit.edu/costa/www/
