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Social Capital: Development
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The Spiritual Capital Research Program is interested in supporting high-level, impartial scholarship on the contribution of religion--both for good and for ill--to economic and social developments. The aim of the program is to catalyze the development of this inter-disciplinary research field, which may become a vital new field in the social sciences.
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According to Marx, profit is nothing more than the surplus-value calculated in social capital. Actually, surplus-value and profit are the same thing - quantitatively identical from the masses' viewpoint. Profit is the mystified form in which surplus-value appears, in the same way that wage is the mystified form in which the value of labor-power appears. It is only in surplus-value that the relation between capital and surplus-value is made clear, "capital appears as relation to itself"' 16 What disappears here is the very organic difference between the constant and the variable part of capital: surplus-value confronts only aggregate and indistinct capital. And this process is already accomplished when the process of production and circulation of capital is accomplished, along with the production and realization of surplus-value: when broadened reproduction flows and, therefore, accumulation advances. Yet, there is a point within this process which allows the entire development to make a leap.
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BuzzLogic, a social media software company, has closed a $9.6 million Series A equity financing round led by Adams Capital Management, Ackerley Partners, and Transcosmos Investments & Business Development. BuzzLogic's first product is an on-demand enterprise software service designed to enable marketing and communications practitioners to identify key influencers within specific conversations taking place in social media such as blogs. Marketing and communications practitioners can use these insights to understand influence and who wields it, to manage their brands, reputations, products, and customer relationships.
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The concept of social capital is currently receiving a lot of attention from development agencies and research institutions. Part of the attention has been on its definition. The following provide a sample of some of these:
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