Contents // Acknowledgements // viii // PART I // 1 Introduction and overview // Why social capital? 3 // The revolution in and around economics 7 // Overview 15 // PART II // 2 The enigma and fluidity of capital // Introduction 25 // Patience is a virtue - but is it capital? 25 Capital is social 33 Concluding remarks 37 // 3 Bringing the social back in // Introduction 40 Taking the social out 41 From personal to social capital 47 Concluding remarks 51 // 4 Bourdieu’s social capital: from distinction to extinction // Introduction 53 // Bourdieu’s multifarious capitals 55 Bourdieu versus Becker 59 Concluding remarks 62 // 3 // 25 // 40 // 53 // vi Contents // 5 Bringing rational choice back in 65 // Introduction 65 From social exchange ... 66 ...to social capital 72 Concluding remarks 79 // 6 Making the benchmark work for social theory 82 // Introduction 82 The Italian job 85 Bowling in the alley 89 Concluding remarks 95 // 7 The expanding universe of social capital 97 // Introduction 97 // Bunging Bourdieu back in 98 // The anecdotal, metaphorical, and heunstic 105 // The network connection 108 // Economists rush in ... 114 // Conflict and power 123 // Concluding remarks 124 // PART III // 8 Making the post-Washington consensus 131 // Introduction 131 // The Washington consensus: from modernisation to neo-liberalism 132 // The developmental agenda - state versus market 135 // From Washington to post-Washington consensus 138 // Beyond the post- Washington consensus? 143
Taking the social half-semusly 145 // Concluding remarks 153 // 9 World banking on social capital 155 // Introduction 155 // The key (readings) to the missing link? 156 Surfers beware the undercurrents 164 Concluding remarks 168 // 10 Measuring social capital — how long is a missing link? 175 // Introduction 175 Social capital as utility 176 // Contents vii // What is social CAPITAL? 178 // Social capital as social choice 180 // Social norms and the demise of social capital 182 // Concluding remarks 185 // PART IV // 11 Social capital versus political economy 189 // Why social capital 189 // Scholarly Third Wayism 195 // There is an alternative alternative 198 // Notes 201 // References 246 // Name index 279 // Subject index 287