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The socio-political bases of regional growth in Western Europe, Andrés Rodríguez Pose

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The socio-political bases of regional growth in Western Europe, Andrés Rodríguez Pose

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-368)

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--European University Institute (SPS), 1996.

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The socio-political bases of regional growth in Western Europe

Nature of contents

theses

Oclc number

1038727715

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Defence date: 26 January 1996

Responsibility statement

Andrés Rodríguez Pose

Series statement

EUI PhD thesesEUI theses

Summary

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 socioeconomic restructuring and structural change, on the one hand, and neoclassical and endogenous growth theories, on the other

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