{"product_id":"after-the-three-italies-isbn-9781405125208","title":"After the Three Italies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter the Three Italies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eResponds to recent theoretical debates in economic geography, involving economists, geographers and planners.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBuilds the foundations for a new theoretical approach to regional economic development and the territorial division of labour.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on the results of a recent ESRC funded research project, as well as on a large range of official data sets.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyses Italy's internal differentiation and its persistent regional inequalities.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the regional impact of the recent evolution of the car, chemicals, steel and clothing industries.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLeads to a new and more complex picture of Italian development.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction: Growth, Inequality and the Territorial Division of Labour 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAreal differentiation and development models 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Three Italies 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA new economic geography of uneven development 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe structure of the book 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Convergence, Divergence, Regional Economic Performance and the New Economic Geographies 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalyzing regional economic performance 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConvergence or divergence 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerritorial divisions of labour 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Theorizing Regional Economic Performance and the Changing Territorial Division of Labour: Value Chains, Industrial Networks, Competition and Governance 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBasic and nonbasic industries 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplaining the dynamics of activities serving wider markets 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnterprises and their environment: establishing the frontiers\/boundaries of the firm 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnterprises and their environment: interfirm relations 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModes of governance and growth 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Growth and Inequality: The Political Economy of Italian Development 64\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eItaly’s economy in its European and Mediterranean context 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOfficial statistics, unrecorded activities and the measurement of output 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGDP, net transfers and regional income 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerritorial inequality in Italy at the turn of the millennium 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatching up, falling behind, surging ahead and losing ground: trends in Italian regional development 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Institutional Dynamics and Regional Performance 92\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe institutional configuration and the characteristics of Italian capitalism 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutional context and territorial development dynamics 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrime and territorial development 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in the 1990s: the political scene 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in the 1990s: the system of governance 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in the 1990s: debt reduction and privatization 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in the 1990s: territorial development policies 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcluding remarks: the implications of recent trends 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Italian Regional Evolutions 128\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eItalian regional evolutions 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparative regional development 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparative provincial development 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmployment, productivity and investment 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic specialization, exports and international integration 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Three Italies: the origins and limits of the district model 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Industrial Change and Regional Development: The Changing Sectoral Profile of Regional Development and the Evolving Regional Profile of Industrial Change 170\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sectoral profile of regional economies 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSectoral structures and uneven development 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe changing geography of vehicle manufacturing in Italy and the world 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe changing geography of chemical manufacturing in Italy and the world 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Globalization, Industrial Restructuring and the Italian Motor Vehicle Industry 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe FIAT Group: changing functions in the value chain and changing chains 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization and market-seeking investments 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFIAT in Italy: technological and organizational upgrading and geographies of production 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutsourcing, redefining corporate boundaries and restructuring the supply chain 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrisis, markets and models 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Reconfiguring Industrial Activities and Places: The Italian Chemical Industry 244\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Italian chemical industry and its changing position in the wider European and world context 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory and characteristics of the Italian chemical industry 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrajectories of restructuring 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe role of SMEs 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnother aspect of the new international division of labour: foreign companies in Italy 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExperiences and regional impacts of restructuring: the disengagement of the chemical industry in Puglia 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom growth pole to industrial cemetery: the disengagement of the chemical industry from Basilicata 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Conclusions and Further Remarks 282\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeography as a spatial expression of a social order 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeography and development models 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary perspectives on industrial change and regional economic performance 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheorizing industrial change and regional inequality: profit strategies and value chain upgrading 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAreal differentiation and uneven development in Italy: from the north–south divide to the Three Italies and after 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic decline and the limits of the district model 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndustrial and regional performance 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions: inequalities, territorial divisions of labour and profit strategies 294\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendices 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Index 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In their analytically original study, Dunford and Greco show that Italy today is divided predominantly into two regions (north and south) and that the development path of each region must necessarily be understood in relation to that of the other. These findings have major significance for political-economic geography well beyond the Italian case.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJohn Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A welcome and detailed dissection of the changing geography of economic growth and decline in Italy, that demonstrates the importance and theoretical value of understanding the dynamic micro-foundations of regional economic change.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eProfessor Peter Sunley, School of Geography, University of Southampton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book is, in sum a good example of theoretically informed empirical research in economic geography, which is aware of and inspired by but also not unconditionally adhering to the dominant theories and approaches in the discipline ... The book by Dunford \u0026amp; Greco is one of these attempts aiming to bring together empirical analysis of regional economies and the social critique of global capitalism. The authors have accomplished this difficult task in a brilliant way and for this reason their book is ultimately recommended reading not only to those interested in issues of regional development in Southern Europe but more generally to all practitioners of economic geography and related disciplines.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoyal Dutch Geographical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMichael Dunford\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCities and Regions in the New Europe\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eSuccessful European Regions: Northern Ireland Learning from Others\u003c\/i\u003e (1996).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLidia Greco\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eIndustrial Redundancies: A Comparative Analysis of the Chemical and Clothing Industries in the UK and Italy\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and co-author of \u003ci\u003eBuilding the European Research Area: European Socio-Economic Research in Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eAfter the Three Italies\u003c\/i\u003e provides a novel synthesis of the literature on convergence and the new economic geography, and develops a new political economy approach to the analysis of the territorial division of labour. New theoretical and methodological approaches are exemplified through an up-to-date account of Italy‘s economic performance and of its recent development relative to other European countries and the rest of the world. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrounded also in the animated recent discussion of Italian development, and drawing on the results of recent ESRC-funded research, as well as on a large range of official data sets, the authors provide a new and more complex picture of Italian industrial change and regional economic performance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988704510181,"sku":"NP9781405125208","price":98.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405125208.jpg?v=1761781259","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/after-the-three-italies-isbn-9781405125208","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}