After the Three Italies Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change |
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| Author:
| Dunford, Michael
Greco, Lidia |
| Series title: | RGS-IBG Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4051-7853-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Book Format: | Digital download |
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Book Description:
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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...
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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.