Conference
Models of Capitalism in Europe

Stefano Solari (University of Padua)

February 6th, 14:30, FEUC

Within the Doctoral Programme "Governance, Knowledge and Innovation"

Presentation
This study hypothesises that Europe (EU15) contains at least four models of capitalism which rely on some different institutional arrangements. Our aim is to show that some relationship exists between the different capitalisms and the different geographical patterns of development at the regional level. After testing the statistical relevance of our territorial areas, we have calculated several concentration and dispersion indexes for the available regional economic data. We conclude that in Europe different institutional macro-configurations do display dissimilar regional growth models based on rather diverse core-periphery models.

Biographic note
Stefano Solari is associate professor of political economy at the Department of Economics and Faculty of Law of the University of Padua (Italy), via del Santo, 33 – 35123 Padova – ITALY. Tel.+39.0422.513640. E-mail stefano.solari@unipd.it
M.A. University of Reading, PhD Université de Versailles, Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines. His interests include the philosophy and history of economic thought (particularly of the social economy), the evolution of institutional arrangements of western economies, with a particular attention to the financial and welfare regimes.