In introducing this chapter, author Philip Morrison makes the intriguing comment that his subject, Harvey Franklin, was not a regional scientist as most readers understand that label. We learn that he was a human geographer educated at Birmingham University who left post-war Britain at the age of 23 to take up a teaching position in a small geography department in Wellington, New Zealand. He soon gained a national reputation as an iconoclastic geographer and then an international reputation as an authority on the peasant economy in Europe. In the intervening years until his retirement in 1995 and beyond, Franklin had a great deal to say about the issues of concern to regional science: regional and economic growth, migration, and inequality. His scholarship was informed by the vast difference he witnessed between the old manufacturing economy he left in the UK and the relatively new rural, export-based economy he entered in New Zealand. Franklin’s holistic perspective was informed by extensive fieldwork in both Europe (The European peasantry: The final phase) and New Zealand (Trade, growth and anxiety: New Zealand beyond the welfare state). The vastly different ways Europe’s peasantry and New Zealand farmers used the land required not just a deep understanding of each country’s geography, but its inter-industry table, its history, cultural drivers, and political institutions. His fieldwork led him to strongly reject the way the social, cultural, and political were divorced from the economic within neoclassical economics, in much the same way that Albert Hirschman (featured in Volume 2) was influenced by his fieldwork in Latin America. The chapter’s reflections on Franklin’s innovative approach are an invitation to an eclectic generation of young social scientists attracted by the growing multidisciplinary opportunities offered by regional science.