{"product_id":"local-development-and-competitiveness-von-s-conti-p-giaccaria","title":"Local Development and Competitiveness","description":"\n                                In recent years, the contemporary social sciences have again  turned their attention to space and places. The hypothesis is that  these are not accidental episodes but a full-blown revolution in the  way of viewing economic processes and their links with social and  cultural structures. In other words, this new sensitivity to places  offers the possibility of rethinking issues typical of economics in a  different perspective that might be defined as local development, one  of the terms most (ab)used in the contemporary scientific and  political debate. \n                \n                \u003cbr\u003e\n                                  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).\n            \n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9789048156597\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9789048156597","offer_id":39415588651101,"sku":"9789048156597","price":106.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/e08a6221-e3a8-43b6-be45-914e8f7ae210.jpg?v=1770527029","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/local-development-and-competitiveness-von-s-conti-p-giaccaria","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}