1. Edition - November 2005
32.90 Euro
2005. 376 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-2521-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2521-5 - John Wiley & Sons






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Detailed description
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.

From the contents
List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface.

1 Introduction: growth, inequality and the territorial division of labour.

2 Convergence, divergence, regional economic performance and the new economic geographies.

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

4 Growth and inequality: the political economy of Italian development.

5 Institutional dynamics and regional performance.

6 Italian regional evolutions.

7 Industrial change and regional development: the changing sectoral profile of regional development and the evolving regional profile of industrial change.

8 Globalization, industrial restructuring and the Italian motor vehicle industry.

9 Reconfiguring industrial activities and places: the Italian chemical industry.

10 Conclusions and further remarks.

Index