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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conclusions
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book the authors will thus try to support more strongly, although in a necessarily simplified manner, the possibility of constructing a theory of local development. The key idea is that there is no single development model operating at a given time and valid for all places, but that it is more correct to talk of multiple development paths that co-exist in the same place at the same time (multiplicity of development paths). The central point is not to identify the succession of distinct hegemonic models (Fordism versus post-Fordism, mass production versus lean production and so on), but to show how the complexity of the contemporary economy demands new concepts to explain its apparent contradictions. In the authors' view, the conception of a theory of local development implies radical rethinking in institutionalist terms of the way of viewing the economy and production, recognising that behind economic development lies a wealth of institutional assets that make the encounter between local and global more open and varied than ever before (institutional biodiversity).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Local Development and Competitiveness
Authors: Sergio Conti, Paolo Giaccaria
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2101-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6829-8Published: 28 February 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5659-7Published: 04 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2101-1Published: 18 April 2013
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 282
Topics: Economic Geography, Economic Growth, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Management, History of Economic Thought/Methodology