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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: François, Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series:Fundamentals of development economics ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Social capital (Sociology)
Economic development > Social aspects.
Capital social (Sociologie)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Economic development > Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Culture and economic development
  • 3. New Institutionalists or culturalists
  • 4. Accounting for characteristics
  • 5. A model of trustworthiness in production
  • 6. The anatomy of development success and failure
  • 7. Conclusions.

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