A miniature Germany in the heart of Italy. A small Deutschland between the hills of the Tuscan-Emilian and Ligurian Apennines, the Adriatic Sea and the middle and lower reaches of the Po River. Emilia Romagna is, in a small way, our Germany: "an organization of economic life that has been able to combine efficiency and equity, growth and social cohesion" (we read in the introduction of the volume edited by Franco Mosconi "The metamorphosis of the Emilian model - Emilia Romagna and the changing industrial districts" published by the Mill).
Franco Mosconi, professor of business economics at the University of Parma and holder of the Jean Monet chair, has collected in this volume about fifteen interventions attributable to industry experts who explore and define the "Emilian Model": an open economy with a robust industrial base made up of companies, industrial districts, supply chains and international markets.
The first part of the book is entitled "No one is an island" and the aim is to make people reflect on the relationship between the international economy and that of individual territories. In the second section, "Transformation or decline of a model", different theses are compared on the evaluation of the metamorphosis taking place in the current industrial system. Third and final part, the one dedicated precisely to the case of Emilia Romagna, which is developed in the light of the results of the III Report 2011 of the National Observatory of Italian Districts.
