LEADER 05812nam 22008053u 450 001 996205534803316 005 20230721025648.0 010 $a1-280-85102-3 010 $a9786610851027 010 $a0-470-76111-3 010 $a1-4051-7853-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000341924 035 $a(EBL)293107 035 $a(OCoLC)437178892 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100075 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11130754 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100075 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10019100 035 $a(PQKB)10048796 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC293107 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000341924 100 $a20130418d2008|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter the Three Italies$b[electronic resource] $eWealth, Inequality and Industrial Change 210 $aOxford $cWiley$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (374 p.) 225 1 $aRGS-IBG Book Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-2520-9 327 $aAfter the Three Italies: Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Growth, Inequality and the Territorial Division of Labour; Areal differentiation and development models; After the Three Italies; A new economic geography of uneven development; The structure of the book; 2 Convergence, Divergence, Regional Economic Performance and the New Economic Geographies; Analyzing regional economic performance; Convergence or divergence; Territorial divisions of labour 327 $aConclusions3 Theorizing Regional Economic Performance and the Changing Territorial Division of Labour: Value Chains, Industrial Networks, Competition and Governance; Introduction; Basic and nonbasic industries; Explaining the dynamics of activities serving wider markets; Enterprises and their environment: establishing the frontiers/boundaries of the firm; Enterprises and their environment: interfirm relations; Modes of governance and growth; Conclusions; 4 Growth and Inequality: The Political Economy of Italian Development; Introduction 327 $aItaly's economy in its European and Mediterranean contextOfficial statistics, unrecorded activities and the measurement of output; GDP, net transfers and regional income; Territorial inequality in Italy at the turn of the millennium; Catching up, falling behind, surging ahead and losing ground: trends in Italian regional development; Conclusions; 5 Institutional Dynamics and Regional Performance; Introduction; The institutional configuration and the characteristics of Italian capitalism; Institutional context and territorial development dynamics; Crime and territorial development 327 $aChanges in the 1990s: the political sceneChanges in the 1990s: the system of governance; Changes in the 1990s: debt reduction and privatization; Changes in the 1990s: territorial development policies; Concluding remarks: the implications of recent trends; 6 Italian Regional Evolutions; Introduction; Italian regional evolutions; Comparative regional development; Comparative provincial development; Employment, productivity and investment; Economic specialization, exports and international integration; After the Three Italies: the origins and limits of the district model; Conclusions 327 $a7 Industrial Change and Regional Development: The Changing Sectoral Profile of Regional Development and the Evolving Regional Profile of Industrial ChangeIntroduction; The sectoral profile of regional economies; Sectoral structures and uneven development; The changing geography of vehicle manufacturing in Italy and the world; The changing geography of chemical manufacturing in Italy and the world; Conclusions; 8 Globalization, Industrial Restructuring and the Italian Motor Vehicle Industry; Introduction; The FIAT Group: changing functions in the value chain and changing chains 327 $aGlobalization and market-seeking investments 330 $aAfter the Three Italies develops a new political economy approach to the analysis of comparative regional development and the territorial division of labour and exemplifies it through an up-to-date account of Italian industrial change and regional economic performance.Responds to recent theoretical debates in economic geography, involving economists, geographers and planners. Builds the foundations for a new theoretical approach to regional economic development and the territorial division of labour. Draws on the results of a recent ESRC funded research p 410 0$aRGS-IBG Book Series 606 $aIndustries - Italy 606 $aItaly - Economic conditions - 1994- - Regional disparities 606 $aRegionalism - Economic aspects - Italy 606 $aRegionalism 606 $aRegionalism$xEconomic aspects$zItaly 606 $aIndustries$zItaly 606 $aIncome distribution$zItaly 606 $aEconomic History$2HILCC 606 $aBusiness & Economics$2HILCC 615 4$aIndustries - Italy. 615 4$aItaly - Economic conditions - 1994- - Regional disparities. 615 4$aRegionalism - Economic aspects - Italy. 615 4$aRegionalism. 615 0$aRegionalism$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aIndustries 615 0$aIncome distribution 615 7$aEconomic History 615 7$aBusiness & Economics 676 $a320.945 676 $a338.945 700 $aDunford$b Michael$0629132 701 $aGreco$b Lidia$0605685 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996205534803316 996 $aAfter the three Italies$91464671 997 $aUNISA