Download or read book Social Capital and Economic Development written by Patrick François and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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