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Sceptics on the role of television in reducing social capital include John Field (2003), Social Capital, and (quoted by Field) Peter Hall, “Social Capital in Britain”, British Journal of Political Science, 29, 3, 1999, pp 368–385. Putnam’s findings on social capital itself are borne out by studies in other OECD countries; the central conclusions as to the deep and long-term decline in social capital are dismayingly consistent. References to findings in such other countries can be found in Stefano Bartolini, Ennio Bilancini and Maurizio Pugno, “Did the Decline in Social Capital Depress Americans’ Happiness?”, Notebooks of the Department of Economic Politics, University of Siena, 2008, available at www.econ-pol.unisi.it/quaderni/540.pdf .

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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