Creating national collective capital:
direct and latent contribution of nations’ citizens
to merit goods producing
Кaracharovskiy V.V.
Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Assoc. Prof., Faculty of Economic Sciences, Head of the Laboratory for Comparative Analysis of Post-Socialist Development, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. vvk@hse.ru
Shkaratan O.I.
Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Tenured Prof. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. ovsey@hse.ru
Кaracharovskiy V.V., Shkaratan O.I. Creating national collective capital: direct and latent contribution of nations’ citizens to merit goods producing. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2016. No 12. P. 3-13
The problem of contribution of nations’ citizens to merit and public goods producing is considered. Along with the direct contribution estimated through the revealed civil activity, the idea of indirect (latent) forms of contribution such as “additional” workforce productivity and “leisure productivity” is taken into account. On the basis of the created complex of indices the chances for realizing indirect forms of citizens’ participation in reproducing the public and merit goods were evaluated for Russia.