considers the public's understanding of the relationship between economic and social well-being, and the linkages between the … social role. The analysis in the chapter is based on data from quantitative survey and evidence from qualitative focus group …

survey of the literature on the impact of social capital on both the economy or economic performance and well-being. This … latter term is closely related to the concept of social progress used in this volume. He begins by defining social capital as … the networks and norms that facilitate cooperative activities within groups (bonding social capital) and between groups …

measuring social progress. As he highlights in his introduction, while much had been made of the fact that Canada in 2000 earned …, "social progress" in a liberal society must be measured in the "enabling" sense that a society progresses when it enables more … constructing a measure of the attainment of social and economic rights are discussed and several quantitative indices of social …

narrow social inequality. While accepting that such benefits have flowed in the past, Heath argues that in the last 25 years …