1st Edition

Social Capital and Economic Development

By Patrick François Copyright 2002
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This immensely readable book by Patrick François provides an original insight into the increasingly fashionable topic that is social capital. In a unique, original study, the author emphasises trustworthiness as a vital feature of social capital and argues that standard economic treatments of this phenomenon are inadequate. The book's richer evolutionary treatment of this is embedded in a... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Culture and Economic Development 3. New Institutions or Culturalists 4. Accounting for Characteristics 5. A Model of Trustworthiness in Production 6. The Anatomy of Development Success and Failure 7. Conclusions

Biography

Patrick François is Associate Professor at Tilburg University, The Netherlands