Description
Book Synopsis* Provides a comprehensive guide to the concept of social capital for students, scholars and policy makers. * This book brings together for the first time, from across a wide range of academic disciplines, the literature examining the different forms and consequences of social capital.
Trade Review"This is an excellent book. It is well-written in an informal and engaging style. It is very comprehensive in coverage, both in terms of large topics and in terms of the relevant literature. It is nuanced, balanced, and authoritative in tone. The micro-, meso-, macro-framework works very well indeed. This book will instantly become the best overall introduction so far to the rapidly increasing literature on social capital. I will surely use it in my own graduate and undergraduate teaching. This is a kind of book that I wish I had written myself."
Robert Putnam, Harvard University; author of Bowling Alone
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Introduction: concepts, history and measurement
Chapter 2: Economic Performance
Chapter 3: Health and Well-Being
Chapter 4: Crime
Chapter 5: Education
Chapter 6: Government and the Effective State
Chapter 7: Trends in Social Capital
Chapter 8: Causes
Chapter 9: Policy Implications
Notes
Bibliography
Index
