Foundations of social capital / edited by Elinor Ostrom and T.K. Ahn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical studies in economic institutions ; 2 | Elgar reference collectionPublication details: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2003.Description: xxxix, 590 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1840648279
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302 FOU 21
Contents:
Introduction / Elinor Ostrom and T. K. Ahn -- 1a. Of the Use Which the Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Life / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 1b. Of the Relation between Public Associations and the Newspapers / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 1c. Relation of Civil to Political Associations / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 1d. How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 2. Social Capital - Its Development and Use / Lyda Judson Hanifan -- 3. Investment in Human Capital / Theodore W. Schultz -- 4. The Uses of City Neighborhoods / Jane Jacobs -- 5. The Strength of Weak Ties / Mark S. Granovetter -- 6. Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness / Mark Granovetter -- 7. Norms as Social Capital / James S. Coleman -- 8. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital / James S. Coleman -- 9. Artisanship and Artifact / Vincent Ostrom -- 10. excerpt from The Social Structure of Competition / Ronald S. Burt -- 11. Social Capital and Institutional Success / Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti -- 12. Institutions as Rules-in-Use / Elinor Ostrom -- 13. Can We Trust Trust? / Diego Gambetta -- 14. Social Capital and Civil Society / Francis Fukuyama -- 15. Social Capital and Economic Performance: Analytics, 1-31 / Partha Dasgupta -- 16. Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and Policy Framework / Michael Woolcock -- 17. Social Capital and the Global Economy / Francis Fukuyama -- 18. Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy / Michael Woolcock and Deepa Narayan -- 19. Explaining African Economic Performance / Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning -- 20. Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation / Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer -- 21. The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life / Robert D. Putnam -- 22. Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America / Robert D. Putnam -- 23. Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital / John Brehm and Wendy Rahn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Elinor Ostrom and T. K. Ahn -- 1a. Of the Use Which the Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Life / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 1b. Of the Relation between Public Associations and the Newspapers / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 1c. Relation of Civil to Political Associations / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 1d. How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 2. Social Capital - Its Development and Use / Lyda Judson Hanifan -- 3. Investment in Human Capital / Theodore W. Schultz -- 4. The Uses of City Neighborhoods / Jane Jacobs -- 5. The Strength of Weak Ties / Mark S. Granovetter -- 6. Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness / Mark Granovetter -- 7. Norms as Social Capital / James S. Coleman -- 8. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital / James S. Coleman -- 9. Artisanship and Artifact / Vincent Ostrom -- 10. excerpt from The Social Structure of Competition / Ronald S. Burt -- 11. Social Capital and Institutional Success / Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti -- 12. Institutions as Rules-in-Use / Elinor Ostrom -- 13. Can We Trust Trust? / Diego Gambetta -- 14. Social Capital and Civil Society / Francis Fukuyama -- 15. Social Capital and Economic Performance: Analytics, 1-31 / Partha Dasgupta -- 16. Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and Policy Framework / Michael Woolcock -- 17. Social Capital and the Global Economy / Francis Fukuyama -- 18. Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy / Michael Woolcock and Deepa Narayan -- 19. Explaining African Economic Performance / Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning -- 20. Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation / Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer -- 21. The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life / Robert D. Putnam -- 22. Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America / Robert D. Putnam -- 23. Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital / John Brehm and Wendy Rahn.

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