In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Association for Energy Economics (IRAEE)

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This paper  wants to study the relationship between social trust and human capital. Social trust is a necessary condition for human development. Fuzzy method is used. Findings of this study showed that in %68 of the countries, social capital is a necessary condition for human development and coverage index showes that 63% of human capital space is covering by social trust. It also was cleared that the degree of membership in social trust set is associated with a degree of membership in a set of human capital; so, the more the degree of membership in the set of countries with high social trust, the more degree of membership in the set of countries with high human capital.

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