Social Capital and Economic Development (Fundamentals of Development Economics)

✍ Scribed by Patric Francois

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 144
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This immensely readable book by Patrick Fran?ois 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 neoclassical model and will prove to be essential reading for economic development scholars as well as those interested in development studies and economic thought in general.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 Culture and economic development......Page 17
3 New Institutionalists or culturalists......Page 31
4 Accounting for characteristics......Page 53
5 A model of trustworthiness in production......Page 65
6 The anatomy of development success and failure......Page 94
Conclusions......Page 123
Notes......Page 126
References......Page 133
Index......Page 140