Abstract
In his opening plenary address at the 2014 Regional Studies Winter Conference, Professor Ron Martin observed that there is a distinct growing apart of Northern and Southern UK cities and regions in terms of output, productivity and growth. Further, that regional science has been unable to fully explain this divergence through the development of holistic theories of sub-national economic development that are more nuanced and realistic than highly abstract New Economic Geography and Urban Economic approaches. This paper responds to Professor Martin's challenge in outlining an approach to sub-national development that re-thinks the relationship between capital and space from the ground up, and develops further his intuition that political factors are an important but underplayed element in uneven spatial development. The world systems approach, which seeks to explain under-development by describing hegemonic structures across international and multi-ethnic space, is revisited and revised in an attempt to shed light on uneven regional development in the UK and elsewhere.
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