Guglielmo Wolleb is professor of Economic Policy at the Faculty of Economics of the Parma University. His main fields of research are local development policies and regional economics. Among his most recent works, “Economie dal Basso”, 2007, Donzelli, with Domenico Cersosimo and “Handbook of Social Capital”, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, edited with Dario Castiglione and Jan Van Deth.