Geography, Structural Change and Economic Development

Edited by Neri Salvadori, Pasquale Commendatore and Massimo Tamberi

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Abstract: The authors in this book regard the process of economic expansion as a non-homogeneous and multifaceted phenomenon which has deeply affected human welfare, and cultural, social and political change. The book is a bridge between the theorists (Rosenstein-Rodan, Lewis, Myrdal, and Hirschmann) who in the post-war period analyzed regional inequalities, structural change and dualism, and the modern literature on economic growth. The latter has emphasized the existence of multiple equilibria, bifurcations and various types of dynamic complexity, and clarified the conditions for the emergence of phenomena such as cumulative causation, path dependence and hysteresis. These are the typical ingredients of structural change, economic development or underdevelopment.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781848442290
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Footloose Capital and Productive Public Services

Pasquale Commendatore, Ingrid Kubin and Carmelo Petraglia

Ch 2 FDI, Mode of Entry and Corporate Governance

Giuseppina Talamo

Ch 3 Natural Resources and Social Conflict: An Explanation of Sub-Saharan Countries’

Davide Fiaschi

Ch 4 The Changing Location of European Industry: A Twofold Geographical Perspective

Eleonora Cutrini

Ch 5 Specialize Rightly or Decline

Alessia Lo Turco and Massimo Tamberi

Ch 6 South–South Regional Trade Agreements, Comparative Advantage and Industrial Growth: Evidence from MERCOSUR Countries

Alessia Lo Turco

Ch 7 Myrdal, Growth Processes and Equilibrium Theories

Carlo Panico and MariaOlivella Rizza

Ch 8 The Legacy of Dualism in New Growth Theory

Salvatore Capasso and Maria Rosaria Carillo

Ch 9 Distribution of Agricultural Surplus and Industrial Takeoff

Ennio Bilancini and Simone D’Alessandro

Ch 10 Dualism and the Big Push

Giovanni Valensisi

Ch 11 Labour Productivity and Technological Capability: An Econometric Analysis on the Italian Regions

Giulio Guarini

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