Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 15, 2007).
GMD: electronic resource.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Topics of economic sociology in this book -- Why and to what extent do cultural resources matter? -- Trust and growth -- Trust and technological change: the case of Internet diffusion -- Trust, innovation and entrepreneurship -- Democracy, political styles, trust and formal education -- Democracy's indirect role for growth and technological change -- The double dividend of expanding education for development -- Political styles and the production of trust in rich democracies -- Beyond the nation-state: supranational and transnational links -- Transnationals and supranationals: the elite bargain towards EU -- Regional integration and economic growth: the case of the EU -- The political and economic logic of integration: the convergence policies of the EU -- Persisting differences and the change in the societal model -- The persistence of varieties of capitalism in rich democracies -- Transition towards the new societal model.