Join or Die: Why You Should Join a Club
...a symptom of economic prosperity and political stability? It’s been a long time since I read the book but I recall that Putnam acknowledges economic factors, particularly the need for both parents in most family households to have jobs and how this drastically cuts down on time available for joining groups. That said, I do wonder if the particularly insidious form of capitalism we’re enmeshed in, variously called “neo-liberalism” or “late stage ca...
