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I. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN WESTERN EUROPEECONOMIC growth in Western Europe has been impressive during the last several decades, with substantial improvements in the material well-being of large numbers of people. Yet average measures of economic growth for whole nations can be deceptive, for they provide little information about the distribution of gains, patterns related to geographic variations in resource endowments, demographic characteristics, political and social institutions, the structure of economic activity and the level of develo ment already economic development is a dynamic rocess. Changes in technology, in the or anization and scale o P economic activity, and in prosperity and power of subnational regions, with further uneven consequences for the various groups of peo le who reside in them. either to social and occupational roups or to geo raphic regions. Economic development has tende to occur uneven K y over space, in achieved, and relationships with the external wor P d. Moreover, the preferences o f consumers, have had differential effects on the And, not the least in importance, regiona P development has been * See Alan H. Taylor, 'The Electoral Geography of Welsh and Scottish Nationalism', Scottish Geographical Magazine, Eg : I (1973)~ 44-52.