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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143293503321

Autore

Dunford Michael

Titolo

After the three Italies : wealth, inequality and industrial change / / Michael Dunford and Lidia Greco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishing, c2005

ISBN

1-280-85102-3

9786610851027

0-470-76111-3

1-4051-7853-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

RGS-IBG book series

Altri autori (Persone)

GrecoLidia <1969->

Disciplina

338.945

Soggetti

Regionalism - Economic aspects - Italy

Industries - Italy

Income distribution - Italy

Italy Economic conditions 1994- Regional disparities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : growth, inequality and the territorial division of labour --  Convergence, divergence, regional economic performance and the new economic geographies -- Theorising regional economic performance and the changing territorial division of labour : value chains, industrial networks, competition and governance --  Growth and inequality : the political economy of Italian development -- Institutional dynamics and regional performance -- Italian regional evolutions -- Industrial change and regional development :  the changing sectoral profile of regional development and the evolving regional profile of industrial change -- Globalization, industrial restructuring and the Italian motor vehicle industry -- Reconfiguring industrial activities and places : the Italian chemical industry -- Conclusion and further remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

After the Three Italies develops a new political economy approach to the analysis of comparative regional development and the territorial division of labour and exemplifies it through an up-to-date account of Italian industrial change and regional economic performance.Responds to recent theoretical debates in economic geography, involving



economists, geographers and planners. Builds the foundations for a new theoretical approach to regional economic development and the territorial division of labour. Draws on the results of a recent ESRC funded research p