Notably, if we factor for the ability to act on this information, meaning that we consider the individual attributes and resources of each person, we may discover that despite having similar social capital, person 3 (the meth cook as indicated in panel b), has greater human capital, and so, may be better able to use their social capital to their advantage.
The non-random recruitment strategy used may introduce bias, which may be especially evident in the level of perceived social capital, because persons participating may have sufficient social capital to gain access to the health care resources they need, including participation in research studies.
They also use a more individualist definition of social capital: a person's social skills.
America and Japan have more than 30 times as much capital per person as China.
In the capital one person in 100 is a police officer.
And Silver Lake has been in talks with potential partners, including sovereign wealth funds like Temasek of Singapore, about contributing additional capital, this person said.
Estimates by Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, an economic adviser at MasterCard, suggest that in China, India, Indonesia and Thailand capital per person is only 2-6% of that in America.
In virtually any Arab capital, the person in a restaurant or airplane lounge bellowing into a cellphone far too loudly will almost invariably speak with a Lebanese accent.
"Before today, no capital markets person could have said with credibility that you were going to go out and raise $49 billion in one try," said one banker involved in the deal.
The company's investment bank, Dean Bradley Osborne Partners, has held talks with private equity firms about selling a minority stake in Diamond to raise additional capital, a person briefed on the matter told DealBook.
