Michael Dunford & Lidia Greco 
After the Three Italies [PDF ebook] 
Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change

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.

Despre 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 (Ac SS). 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).