Bonding and bridging: Social capital and the communitarian critique of liberal markets

Review of Austrian Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 119-133

  Meadowcroft, John ^a   Pennington, Mark ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communitarianism; Culture; Liberalism; Social capital; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549118461     PISSN: 08893047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11138-007-0032-2     Document Type: Article

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