Dunford / Greco After the Three Italies

Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7853-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, E-Book

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After the Three Italies develops a new political economyapproach to the analysis of comparative regional development andthe territorial division of labour and exemplifies it through anup-to-date account of Italian industrial change and regionaleconomic performance.

* * Responds to recent theoretical debates in economic geography,involving economists, geographers and planners.

* Builds the foundations for a new theoretical approach toregional economic development and the territorial division oflabour.

* 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 economicperformance and of its recent development relative to otherEuropean countries and the rest of the world.

* Analyses Italy's internal differentiation and its persistentregional inequalities.

* Examines the regional impact of the recent evolution of thecar, chemicals, steel and clothing industries.

* Leads to a new and more complex picture of Italiandevelopment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dunford, Michael

Greco, Lidia

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Dunford is Professor of Economic Geography at theUniversity of Sussex. In 2000 he was elected member of the Academyof Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (AcSS). In 1996-2002he was Editor of Regional Studies. In 2003 he received the RoyalGeographical Society Edward Heath Award for geographical researchin Europe. He has held Visiting Professorships at the universitiesof Pavia, Toulouse, Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, Campinas inBrazil, Oslo and Sciences-Po in Paris. His previous publicationsinclude Cities and Regions in the New Europe (1992) andSuccessful European Regions: Northern Ireland Learning fromOthers (1996).
Lidia Greco is Lecturer in the Sociology of Economics andLabour Processes at the University of Bari, Italy. She previouslyworked at Trinity College, Dublin, where she carried out twoEU-funded research projects. As a consultant, Lidia has worked forthe University of Durham and the Sussex European Institute, andmore recently for the European Union. She is the author ofIndustrial Redundancies: A Comparative Analysis of the Chemicaland Clothing Industries in the UK and Italy (2002) andco-author of Building the European Research Area: EuropeanSocio-Economic Research in Practice (forthcoming).