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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext After the Three Italies 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. Grounded 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures xi List of Tables xiv Series Editors' Preface xvii Preface and Acknowledgements xviii List of Abbreviations xxiii 1 Introduction: Growth, Inequality and the Territorial Division of Labour 1 Areal differentiation and development models 1 After the Three Italies 8 A new economic geography of uneven development 12 The structure of the book 15 2 Convergence, Divergence, Regional Economic Performance and the New Economic Geographies 17 Analyzing regional economic performance 17 Convergence or divergence 20 Territorial divisions of labour 26 Conclusions 39 3 Theorizing Regional Economic Performance and the Changing Territorial Division of Labour: Value Chains, Industrial Networks, Competition and Governance 41 Introduction 41 Basic and nonbasic industries 42 Explaining the dynamics of activities serving wider markets 43 Enterprises and their environment: establishing the frontiers/boundaries of the firm 50 Enterprises and their environment: interfirm relations 52 Modes of governance and growth 58 Conclusions 61 4 Growth and Inequality: The Political Economy of Italian Development 64 Introduction 64 Italy's economy in its European and Mediterranean context 65 Official statistics, unrecorded activities and the measurement of output 70 GDP, net transfers and regional income 76 Territorial inequality i...
