The Dynamics of Regional Growth in Europe

Social and Political Factors
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-823383-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

In a period of deep economic, social, and political transformation, regional disparities seem to be particularly resistant to change. The emergence of a global economy, the shift in production methods, and the greater mobility of capital, labour, and raw materials have not brought about a radical reshuffling of the prevailing regional disparities.

There is a greater concentration of economic activity in core areas and very few peripheral regions are taking advantage of the process of global restructuring. The Dynamics of Regional Growth in Europe looks for the reasons behind this persistence in the social, political, and institutional arrangements of a large set of European regions, by trying to relate two scientific approaches concerned with regional economic performance, which share very little in common: the literature on socio-economic restructuring and structural change, and neoclassical and endogenous growth theories.

OXFORD GEOGRAPHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AIMS TO PUBLISH THE BEST ORIGINAL RESEARCH STUDIES IN THE RELATED FIELDS OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. IT'S SCOPE IS INTERNATIONAL, PRESENTING A BROAD AND DIVERSE RANGE OF SCHOLARLY APPROACHES FROM ACROSS THE WORLD.

SERIES EDITORS: GORDON CLARK, ANDREW GOUDIE, AND CERI PEACH

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodriguez-Pose, Andres

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Wirtschaftsgeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Introduction: The Process of Socio-economic Restructuring and Its Spatial Consequences

- 2: Introducing Social and Political Factors in the Study of Growth

- 3: Regions, Nations, and Growth

- 4: Regional Growth Patterns

- 5: Social Conditions and Regional Growth in Western Europe

- 6: Labour Market, Education, and Growth

- 7: Politics, Institutions, and Growth

- 8: Regional Politics and Growth in the European Context

- Conclusion

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andres Rodriguez-Pose is Lecturer in Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment and Director of the MSc in Local Economic Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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