Items related to Remaking the Italian Economy: Policy Failures and Local...

Remaking the Italian Economy: Policy Failures and Local Successes in the Contemporary Polity (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) - Hardcover

Locke, Richard M.

 
9780801428913: Remaking the Italian Economy: Policy Failures and Local Successes in the Contemporary Polity (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0801428912 ISBN 13: 9780801428913
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1995

Synopsis

"Backward," "corrupt," and "clientelistic" are adjectives often used to describe Italy's political economy. In the late 1980s, however, Italy outperformed some neighbor states considered more efficient and stable. Richard M. Locke resolves the apparent contradiction between these contrasting views of Italy as he reconstructs the failures of state reform initiatives as well as the successes of industrial change in key sectors. In the process, he maps out a new micro-political approach to comparative political economy.
Locke analyzes Italy's economy, not as a coherent national system, but as a composite of heterogeneous entrepreneurial patterns. The characteristics of these diverse local economies shape the strategic choices of economic actors, he maintains, and help explain how divergent patterns of dynamism and decline can coexist within the same country.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Richard M. Locke is Associate Professor at the Sloan School of Management and Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801428912
ISBN 13 
9780801428913
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256