Social Capital and Economic Development: Well-Being in Developing Countries (Hardcover)

~ Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues 2000 (Author), Jonathan Isham (Author, Editor), Thomas Kelly (Author, Editor), Sunder Ramaswamy (Author, Editor)

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Product Description

Since the mid 1990s, theoretical and empirical research on how social capital affects well-being has blossomed in the field of economic development. Based on noted theoretical and empirical work in other social sciences, this concept is now becoming a vital new tool for economists.

The chapters in this volume explore the challenges and opportunities raised by this concept for researchers, practitioners and teachers. Social Capital and Economic Development is based upon a consistent, policy-based vision of how social capital affects well-being in developing countries. The book includes a comparison of experimental and empirical evidence on social capital and a range of field-based evidence, from environmental to cultural to nation-building and on how investment in social capital can improve well-being. The contributions are from leading development economists as well as non-economic social scientists with expertise in this field.

Development academics, practitioners, and environmental economists will find this coherent volume of great interest, as well as those involved in public policy in the developing world.

About the Author

Jonathan Isham, Assistant Professor of Economics, Thomas Kelly, Assistant Professor of Economics and Sunder Ramaswamy, Frederick C. Dirks Professor of International Economics, Middlebury College

Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub (November 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840646993
• ISBN-13: 978-1840646993
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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