The troika of sociology, political science and economics / Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen -- The meaning of social capital and its link to collective action / Elinor Ostrom, T.K. Ahn -- Cooperation : evidence from experiments / Anders Poulsen -- Grid-group analysis / D. Douglas Caulkins -- Social capital in the brain? / Michael Bang Petersen, Andreas Roepstorff, Søren Serritzlew -- Humour / Peter Gundelach -- Religio-philosophical roots / Ralph Weber -- Corruption / Eric M. Uslaner -- Social capital : the dark side / Peter Graeff -- Social capital in east-central Europe / Natalia Letki -- The state / Francisco Herreros -- The universal welfare state / Bo Rothstein -- The Nordic welfare state / Thora Margareta Bertilsson, Christian Hjorth-Andersen -- Tax compliance / Lars P. Feld -- The environment / Kim Mannemar Sønderskov -- The labour market / Fabio Sabatini -- Locational choice, ethnicity and assimilation / Gil S. Epstein -- Making integration work / Peter Nannestad -- Economic inequality / Henrik Jordahl -- Economic growth / Christian Bjørnskov -- The macro perspective on generalized trust / Martin Paldam -- Mixed methods assessment / Veronica Nyhan Jones, Michael Woolcock -- The sociability of nations : international comparisons in bonding, bridging and linking social capital / Roger Patulny -- Building social capital / Robert Chase, Rikke Nørding Christensen.
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The Handbook of Social Capital offers an important contribution to the study of bonding and bridging social capital networks, balancing the 'troika' of sociology, political science and economics. Eminent contributors, including Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, explore the different scientific approaches required if international research is to embrace both the bright and the more shadowy aspects of social capital. The handbook stresses the importance of trust for economies all over the world and contains a strong advocacy for cross-disciplinary work within the social sciences. Social capital is becoming one of the most important and hotly discussed topics of today. This inter-disciplinary handbook intends to serve as a bridge for students and scholars across the social sciences.