- Ron Martin
Ron Martin is professor of
economic geography at theDepartment of Geography University of Cambridge . He is also a fellow of theCambridge-MIT Institute ,research associate of theCentre for Business Research and professorial fellow ofSt Catharine's College, Cambridge . Moreover, he is an associate director of theLocal Futures Group , an economic-geographicconsultancy .Distinctions
*Awarded the
British Academy 's 'Thank-Offering to Britain' senior research fellowship, 1997-1998
*Elected academician of theAcademy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences , 2001
*Selected by theAmerican Economic Association in 2003 as one of the world's most cited economists
*Elected fellow of theBritish Academy , 2005Research
*"The Geographies of Work
*"The Geographies of Financial Systems
*"Regional Economic Development
*"Economic Theory and Economic Geography
*"Geography and Public PolicyPublications
Books
* 1986 The Geography of De-industrialisation, (Ed. with R.E. Rowthorn), London: Macmillan, 365 pp. * 1992 Regional Development in the 1990s: The British Isles in Transition (Ed. with P. Townroe), London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 330 pp. * 1994 Money, Power and Space, (Joint Editor with S.E Corbridge and N. J. Thrift),Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 452 pp. * 1994 Human Geography: Society, Space and the Social Sciences, (Ed. with D.J. Gregory and G.E. Smith), London: Macmillan, 294 pp. * 1996 Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour, (With P. Sunley and J. Wills), London: Jessica Kingsley, 244 pp. * 1998 Unemployment and Social Exclusion, (Ed. with Paul Lawless), London: Jessica Kingsley, 274 pp. * 1999 Money and the Space Economy (Ed), London: Wiley, 337 pp. * 1999 The Reader in Economic Geography: Producing and Consuming Global Capitalism (Ed. with J. Bryson, N, Henry and D. Keeble), London:John Wiley, 451 pp. * 2001 Business Clusters in the UK, (with P Miller, R Botham, G Gibson and B. Moore), London: TSO, 238pp. * 2001 Labour's New Regional Policy: An Assessment (with S. Fothergill, R. Rowthorn, et al. P. Tyler), London: Regional Studies Association, 60 pp. * 2003 Regional Venture Capital Policy in Germany and the UK, Anglo-German Foundation, (with P. Sunley, B. Klaage and C Berndt), London and Berlin,152 pp. * 2003 Geographies of Labour Market Inequality (Ed. with P. Morrison), Routledge, London, 272 pp. * 2005 Putting Workfare in its Place, Oxford: Blackwell 230 pp. * 2005 Regional Competitive Advantage (Ed. with M, Kitson and P. Tyler), London: Routledge, 195 pp. * 2005 Clusters and Regional Development: Critical Reflections and Explorations (Ed. with B. Asheim and P. Cooke), London: Routledge, 302 pp. * 2007 The Evolving Project of Economic Geography (Vol 1: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography), London: Routledge, 438 pp * 2007 Spaces of Wealth Creation in a Globalizing Economy (Vol 2: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography), London: Routledge, 549 pp. * 2007 Firms and Labour Markets (Vol 3: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography), London: Routledge, 384 pp. * 2007 The Cultural Economy (Vol 4: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography), London: Routledge, 468 pp. * 2007 Regulating the Economic Landscape (Vol 5: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography), London: Routledge, 581 pp. * 2007 Complexity Thinking and Evolutionary Economic Geography (With P. Sunley), Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 4, pp. 16-45. * 2007 Constructing an Evolutionary Economic Geography (With R. Boschma), Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 4, pp. 1-15. * 2007 The Transformation of Economic Geography (With P. Sunley), Ch.1 in The Evolving Project of Economic Geography (Vol 1: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography, Eds: R Martin and P Sunley), London: Routledge, pp. 3-21. * 2007 Regions, Capital and Knowledge (With P. Sunley), Realms of Wealth Creation in a Globalizing Economy (Vol 2: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography, Eds: R Martin and P Sunley), London: Routledge, pp. 3-16. * 2007 The Changing Landscape of Workplaces and Work (With P. Sunley) in Changing Worlds of Work and Welfare (Vol 3: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography, Eds: R Martin and P Sunley), London: Routledge, pp. 3-16. * 2007 The Rise of Cultural Economic Geography (With A. James and P. Sunley) in The Cultural Economy (Vol 4: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography, Eds: R Martin and P Sunley), London: Routledge, pp. 3-18. * 2007 Regulating Spaces and Economic Geography (With P. Sunley) in Regulating the Economic Landscape (Vol 5: Critical Concepts in Economic Geography, Eds: R Martin and P Sunley), London: Routledge, pp. 3-13. * 2008 The 'New Geographical turn in Economics: Some Critical Reflections, Ch 23 in Jovanvic, M. N. (Ed) Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries, Volume 1, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar , pp. 446-472. * 2008 Deconstructing Clusters: Chaotic Concept or Policy Panacea? Journal of Economic Geography, Ch 6 in Jovanvic, M. N. (Ed) Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries, Volume 3, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 78-108. * 2008 Geographies of Economies, in Economy: Critical Essays in Human Geography (Vol 8 in Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place series, Ashgate, (In Press) * 2008 Path Dependence and Path Creation in the Economic Landscape, in Boschma, R. and Martin, R. (Eds) Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. * 2008 The 'New Economic Geography': Credible Models of the Economic Landscape? In Leyshon, A., McDowell, L. and Sunley, S. (Eds) A Compendium of Economic Geography, London: Sage.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
* 1988 The Political Economy of Britain's North-South Divide, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,13, pp. 389-418. pp. 27-51. * 1989 De-Industrialisation and State Intervention: Keynesianism,Thatcherism and the Regions, Chapter 6 in: J. Mohan (Ed) The Political Geography of Contemporary Britain, London: Macmillan, pp. 87-111. * 1989 The Reorganisation of Regional Theory: Alternative Perspectives on the Changing Capitalist Space Economy, Geoforum, 20, 2, pp. 187-201. * 1989 Regional Imbalance as Consequence and Constraint in National Economic Renewal, Chapter 4 in: Green, F. (Ed) The Restructuring of the UK Economy, London: Harvester Press, pp. 80-97. * 1989 The Growth and Geographical Anatomy of Venture Capitalism in the United Kingdom, Regional Studies, 23, 5, pp. 389-403. * 1990 Flexible Futures and Post-Fordist Places, Environment and Planning, A, 22, 10, 1276-1280. * 1991 Mrs Thatcher's Vision of the 'New Britain' and the Other Sides of the 'Cambridge Phenomenon', (With P. Crang), Society and Space 9, pp. 91-116. * 1992 Has The British Economy Been Transformed? Critical Reflections on the Policies of the Thatcher Era, Chapter 7 in P.Cloke (Ed) Policy and Changein Thatcher's Britain, Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp 123-158. 319. * 1992 British Regional Policy in the Context of Increasing European Economic Integration (With P. Tyler) Cambridge Regional Economic Review, 2, pp. 34-43. * 1993 Reviving Economic Case for Regional Policy, Chapter 15 in Hart, M.and Harrison, R. (Eds) Spatial Policy in a Divided Nation, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 270-290. * 1993 The Geography of Unemployment, Geography Review 6, 3, pp. 10-16. * 1993 The Geography of Trade Union Decline: Spatial Dispersal or RegionalResilience? (With P. Sunley and J.Wills), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographer, NS, 18, pp. 36-62. * 1994 Unions and The Politics of De-industrialization: Some Comments on How Geography Complicates Class Analysis, (With P. Sunley and J. Wills), Antipode, 26, 1, pp. 59-76. * 1994 Stateless Monies, Global Financial Integration and National Autonomy: The End of Geography?, Chapter 6 in Money, Power and Space, (Joint Editor with S.E. Corbridge and N. J. Thrift), Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 152-176. * 1994 Labouring Differences: Method, Measurement and Purpose in Geographical Research on Trade Unions (With P. Sunley and J.Wills), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 19,1, pp 102-110. * 1994 Economic Theory and Human Geography, Chapter 2 in: D.J. Gregory, R.L. Martin and G.E. Smith (Eds) Human Geography: Society, Space and the Social Sciences, London: Macmillan, pp. 21-53. * 1994 Local Industrial Politics: Spatial Subsystems in British Engineering, Employee Relations, 16, 2, pp. 19-30. * 1994 Real Wage Rigidity at the Local Level in Great Britain, (With P.Tyler). Regional Studies, 28,8, pp. 833-842. * 1994 The Decentralisation of Industrial Relations: Institutional Spaces and Local Context in British Engineering, (With P. Sunley and J. Wills), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS, 19, 4, pp. 459-487. * 1995 Undermining the Financial Basis of Regions: The Spatial Structure and Implications of the UK Pension Fund System, (With R. Minns). Regional Studies, 29,2, pp. 125-144. * 1995 Income and Poverty Inequalities Across Regional Britain: The North-South Divide Lingers On, Chapter 2 in Philo. C. (Ed) The Social Geography of Poverty:Studies in the UK, London: CPAG, pp. 23-44. * 1996 Paul Krugman's Geographical Economics and Its Implications for Regional Development Theory: A Critical Assessment, (With P. Sunley), Economic Geography, 72, 3 , pp. 260-293. * 1997 Regional Unemployment Disparities and their Dynamics, Regional Studies, 31, Martin), pp. 35-50. * 1997 Regional Dimensions of Europe's Unemployment Problem, Chapter 1 in Lawless, P., Martin, R.L. and Hardy, S. (Eds) Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Landscapes of Labour Market Inequality, London: Jessica Kingsley, pp. 1-34. * 1997 The Post-Keynesian State and the Space Economy, Chapter 21 in Lee, R. and Wills, J. (Eds) Geographies of Economies, London: Arnold, pp.280-291. * 1998 European Regional Unemployment Disparities: Convergence or Persistence? (With P, Tyler and M, Baddeley), European Urban and Regional Studies, 5,3, pp.195-215. * 1998 Cyclical Shocks and Structural Shifts in British Regional Unemployment Since the Early-1980s (With P. Tyler and M. Baddeley), Applied Economics, 30, pp. 19-30. * 1998 Slow Convergence? The New Endogenous Growth Theory and Regional Development (With P. Sunley) Economic Geography , 74, 3, pp. 201-227. * 1999 Unemployment Flow Regimes and Regional Unemployment Disparities, (With P. Sunley), Environment and Planning, A, 31,pp. 523-550. * 1999 The Economic Geography of Money, Chapter 1 in Martin, R.L. (Ed) Money and the Space Economy, London: Wiley, pp. 3-28. * 1999 Selling Off the State: Privatisation, the Equity Market and the Geographies of Private Shareholding, Chapter 13 in Martin, R.L. (Ed) Money and the Space Economy, London:Wiley, pp. 260-283. * 1999 The New 'Geographical Turn' in Economics: Some Critical Reflections, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 23, pp 63-91. * 2000 Regional Wage Rigidity in the The European Union and The United States Compared, Journal of Regional Science , 40, 1, pp.113-140 * 2000 The Geographies of De-mutualisation and the Remapping of Financial Landscapes, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS, 25, pp. 221-141. * 2000 Regional Employment Evolutions in the European Union, (with P. Tyler) Regional Studies , 34, 7, pp. 601-616. * 2000 Tackling the Regional Jobs Gap, (with J. Grieg-Smith, A Glynn, R. Rowthorn, et al), Employment Policy Institute, London. * 2000 Local Labour Markets, Their Nature, Functioning and Regulation, Chapter 19 in: Clark, G.L., Gertler, M. and Feldman, (Eds) Handbook of Economic Geography, Oxford: Oxford University, pp.455-476. * 2000 The Geographies of the National Minimum Wage, Environment and Planning, A, 32, pp. 1735-1758. * 2000 Institutional Approaches to Economic Geography, in Barnes, T. and Sheppard, M. (Eds) Chapter 5 in A Companion to Economic Geography, Oxford: Blackwell. pp.77-94. * 2000 Labour Markets, Economic Efficiency and Social Justice: Beyond the Conventional Tradeoff, (with M.Kitson and F. Wilkinson), Cambridge Journal of Economics, 24, 4, pp. 631-641. * 2001 EMU versus the Regions? Regional Convergence and Divergence in Euroland, Journal of Economic Geography, 1, 1, pp. 51-80. * 2001 Geography and Public Policy: The Case of the Missing Manifesto, Progress in Human Geography, 25, 2, pp. 121-137. * 2001 Rethinking the 'Economic' in Economic Geography: Broadening Our Vision or Losing our Focus? (with P. Sunley) Antipode, 33, 2, pp. 148-161. * 2001 The Geographer as Social Critic: Getting Indignant about Income Inequalities, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS, 26,3, pp.267-272. * 2001 Mapping the New Deal: Mapping Local Disparities in the Performance of Welfare-to-Work, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS, 26,4,pp.484-512. * 2002 Taking Risks in Regions: The Geographical Anatomy of Europe's Emerging Venture Capital Market (with P. Sunley and D. Turner) Journal of Economic Geography, 2, 2, pp. 1-30. * 2002 EMU and Enlargement: Twin Threats to European Regional Cohesion? Ch 20 in Arnull. T. and Wincott, D. (Eds) Accountability and Legitimacy in the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 346-363. * 2002 Localising Welfare to Work? Territorial Flexibility and the New Deal for Young People, Environment and Planning, A, 20, pp. 911-932. * 2003 The Local Impact of the New Deal: Does Geography Make a Difference? (with P. Sunley and C Nativel), Ch. 8 in Local Labour Markets: Processes, Problems and Policies (Joint Editor with P. Morrison), London: Routledge, pp. 175-207. * 2003 Thinking About the Geographies of Labour, (with P. Morrison), Chapter 1 in The Geography of Labour Market Inequality (Joint Editor with P. Morrison), London: Routledge, pp 3-20. * 2003 The Geographies of a National Minimum: The Case of the UK, (With P. Sunley), Chapter 9 in The Geography of Labour Market Inequality (Joint Editor with P. Morrison), London: Routledge, pp. 208-236. * 2003 The Geographies of Labour Market Inequality: Some Emergent Issues and Challenges, Ch 10 in The Geography of Labour Market Inequality (Joint Editor with P. Morrison), London: Routledge, pp. 239-262. * 2003 Deconstructing Clusters: Chaotic Concept or Policy Panacea? (With P. Sunley) Journal of Economic Geography, 3, 1 pp. 5-35. * 2004 The Contemporary Debate over Britain's North-South Divide: Images and Realities of Regional Inequality in late-20th Century Britain, Ch 2. in A.R.H. Baker (Ed) Geographies of England: The North-South Divide, Imagined and Material, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 15-43. * 2004 Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Growth across the European Regions, Regional Studies, Special Issue on Regional Competitiveness, 38, pp.1045-1067. * 2004 Regional Competitiveness: An Elusive yet Key Concept? (with M. Kitson and P. Tyler), Regional Studies, Special Issue on Regional Competitiveness, 38, pp.991-1000 * 2004 Expanding the Role of Geography in Public Policy (With A. James and M. Gray), Environment and Planning, A, 36, pp. 1901-1906. * 2005 Identifying and Interpreting Regional Convergence Clusters in the European Union (with L Corrada and G Meeks), Economic Journal, 115, pp. C133-C160. * 2005 Une Convergence Lente? La Nouvelle Théorie de la Croissance Endogène et le Développement Regional, Geographie, Économie, Société, 7, pp. 129-154. * 2005 Decentralised versus Centralised Financial Systems; Is There a Case for Local Capital Markets? (With B. Klagge), Journal of Economic Geography, 5, pp 387-421.. * 2005 Spatial Proximity Effects and Regional Equity Gaps in the Venture Capital Market: Evidence from Germany and the UK, (With C. Berndt, B. Klagge and P. Sunley) Environment and Planning A, 27 pp. 1207-1231. * 2005 Venture Capital Programmes in the UK and Germany: In What Sense Regional Policies? (With P. Sunley, C. Berndt and B. Klagge), Regional Studies, 39, pp. 255-273. * 2005 European Integration and Economic Geography, Ch 6 in Economics for a New Age (Ed H. Garretsen), Utrecht: Utrecht University Press, pp. 141- 163. * 2005 Regional Dimensions of Europe's Growth Problem (With B. Gardiner and P. Tyler), Regional Studies, 39, pp. 698-712.
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