After the Three Italies [[electronic resource] ] : Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change
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| Autore: |
Dunford Michael
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| Titolo: |
After the Three Italies [[electronic resource] ] : Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Wiley, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.945 |
| 338.945 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Industries - Italy |
| Italy - Economic conditions - 1994- - Regional disparities | |
| Regionalism - Economic aspects - Italy | |
| Regionalism | |
| Income distribution - Italy | |
| Economic History | |
| Business & Economics | |
| Altri autori: |
GrecoLidia
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | After 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 |
| Conclusions3 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 | |
| Italy'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 | |
| Changes 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 | |
| 7 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 | |
| Globalization and market-seeking investments | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | After the three Italies |
| ISBN: | 1-280-85102-3 |
| 9786610851027 | |
| 0-470-76111-3 | |
| 1-4051-7853-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996205534803316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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