If Rachel Reeves wants growth, improved community cohesion could be essential | Heather Stewart

A new paper has found that social capital ‘is the cake, not the icing’ of a strong, well functioning economyWindfarms, train lines, science labs – when policymakers think about the ingredients for kickstarting the UK’s sagging economy, they tend to imagine tangible bits of infrastructure. But two of the UK’s most eminent public economists have banded together to urge Rachel Reeves to reconsider another dimension of the UK’s makeup: social capital.Andy Haldane