Ronald Leonard Martin FBA

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(born 17 April 1948) is professor of

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at the Department of Geography University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute,

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of the

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and professorial fellow of

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. Martin's research focuses on the geographies of work and of financial systems, regional economic development,

economic theory Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

and

, and the interface between geography and

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. He is the editor of the journal ''Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society'', published by

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2005, and awarded a

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Major Research Fellowship for 2007-2010. Outside of his academic work, he is an associate director of the Local Futures Group, an economic-geographic consultancy.

Awards and recognition

's 'Thank-Offering to Britain' senior research fellowship, 1997–1998 * Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, 2001 * Listed by the

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in 2003 as one of the world's most cited economists

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