ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|14 pages

Culture and economic development

chapter 3|22 pages

New Institutionalists or culturalists

chapter 4|12 pages

Accounting for characteristics

chapter 5|29 pages

A model of trustworthiness in production

chapter 7|3 pages

Conclusions