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Figure 1. Rendition of Marx Thesis onProduction and Consumption Relations

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Recent Syntheses

Lin, Nan. A Network Theory of Social Capital,Handbook on Social Capital, edited byDario Castiglione, Jan van Deth and Guglielmo Wolleb, Oxford University Press. 2006

Lin, Nan. Social Capital, Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology,edited by Jens Beckert and Milan Zagiroski, Rutlege Ltd.2005.

Forthcoming Volumes

Lin, Nan; Erickson, Bonnie, editors. Social Capital: Advances in Research Oxford: Oxford University Press

Lin, Nan. Social Capital and the Labor Market: Transforming Urban China. NY:Cambridge University Press.

Lin, Nan, editor. Social Capital: Critical Concepts in Social Sciences. 4 volumes. London: Routledge.

Hsung, Raymay; Lin, Nan; Breiger, Ronald, editors. Contexts of Social Capital:Social networks in Communities, Markets and Organizations. London: Routledge.

Figure 1. Rendition of Marx Thesis on Production and Consumption Relations2 : Positions requiring social capital Book-2001Taiwan editionChina editionRecent SynthesesForthcoming Volumes