Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I -- 1 Introduction and overview -- Why social capital? -- The revolution in and around economics -- Overview -- PART II -- 2 The enigma and fluidity of capital -- Introduction -- Patience is a virtue-but is it capital? -- Capital is social -- Concluding remarks -- 3 Bringing the social back in -- Introduction -- Taking the social out -- From personal to social capital -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Bourdieu's social capital: from distinction to extinction -- Introduction -- Bourdieu's multifarious capitals -- Bourdieu versus Becker -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Bringing rational choice back in -- Introduction -- From social exchange… -- …to social capital -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Making the benchmark work for social theory -- Introduction -- The Italian job -- Bowling in the alley -- Concluding remarks -- 7 The expanding universe of social capital -- Introduction -- Bringing Bourdieu back in -- The anecdotal, metaphorical, and heuristic -- The network connection -- Economists rush in… -- Conflict and power -- Concluding remarks -- PART III -- 8 Making the post-Washington consensus -- Introduction -- The Washington consensus: from modernisation to neo-liberalism -- The developmental aenda-state versus market -- From Washington to post-Washington consensus -- Beyond the post-Washington consensus? -- Taking the social half-seriously -- Concluding remarks -- 9 World banking on social capital -- Introduction -- The key (readings) to the missing link? -- Surfers beware the undercurrents -- Concluding remarks -- 10 Measuring social capital-how long is a missing link? -- Introduction -- Social capital as utility -- What is social CAPITAL? -- Social capital as social choice -- Social norms and the demise of social capital -- Concluding remarks -- PART IV.

11 Social capital versus political economy -- Why social capital -- Scholarly Third Wayism -- There is an alternative alternative -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.