Michael Dunford, Lidia Greco

After the Three Italies (eBook, ePUB)

Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 project, as well as on a large range of official data sets. * Provides an up-to-date picture of Italy's economic performance and of its recent development relative to other European countries and the rest of the world. * Analyses Italy's internal differentiation and its persistent regional inequalities. * Examines the regional impact of the recent evolution of the car, chemicals, steel and clothing industries. * Leads to a new and more complex picture of Italian development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444355482
• Artikelnr.: 38310153

Autorenporträt

Michael Dunford is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Sussex. In 2000 he was elected member of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (AcSS). In 1996-2002 he was Editor of Regional Studies. In 2003 he received the Royal Geographical Society Edward Heath Award for geographical research in Europe. He has held Visiting Professorships at the universities of Pavia, Toulouse, Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, Campinas in Brazil, Oslo and Sciences-Po in Paris. His previous publications include Cities and Regions in the New Europe (1992) and Successful European Regions: Northern Ireland Learning from Others (1996). Lidia Greco is Lecturer in the Sociology of Economics and Labour Processes at the University of Bari, Italy. She previously worked at Trinity College, Dublin, where she carried out two EU-funded research projects. As a consultant, Lidia has worked for the University of Durham and the Sussex European Institute, and more recently for the European Union. She is the author of Industrial Redundancies: A Comparative Analysis of the Chemical and Clothing Industries in the UK and Italy (2002) and co-author of Building the European Research Area: European Socio-Economic Research in Practice (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface.

1 Introduction: growth, inequality and the territorial divisionof labour.

2 Convergence, divergence, regional economic performance and thenew economic geographies.

3 Theorising regional economic performance and the changingterritorial division of labour: value chains, industrial networks,competition and governance.

4 Growth and inequality: the political economy of Italiandevelopment.

5 Institutional dynamics and regional performance.

6 Italian regional evolutions.

7 Industrial change and regional development: the changingsectoral profile of regional development and the evolving regionalprofile of industrial change.

8 Globalization, industrial restructuring and the Italian motorvehicle industry.

9 Reconfiguring industrial activities and places: the Italianchemical industry.

10 Conclusions and further remarks.

Index

Rezensionen

"In their analytically original study, Dunford and Greco show thatItaly today is divided predominantly into two regions (north andsouth) and that the development path of each region mustnecessarily be understood in relation to that of the other. Thesefindings have major significance for political-economic geographywell beyond the Italian case."
--John Agnew, University of California, LosAngeles

"A welcome and detailed dissection of the changing geography ofeconomic growth and decline in Italy, that demonstrates theimportance and theoretical value of understanding the dynamicmicro-foundations of regional economic change."
--Professor Peter Sunley, School of Geography, University ofSouthampton

"The book is, in sum a good example of theoretically informedempirical research in economic geography, which is aware of andinspired by but also not unconditionally adhering to the dominanttheories and approaches in the discipline ... The book by Dunford& Greco is one of these attempts aiming to bring togetherempirical analysis of regional economies and the social critique ofglobal capitalism. The authors have accomplished this difficulttask in a brilliant way and for this reason their book isultimately recommended reading not only to those interested inissues of regional development in Southern Europe but moregenerally to all practitioners of economic geography and relateddisciplines."
--Royal Dutch Geographical Society