David Blanchflower

Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College

David Blanchflower CBE is a leading labour economist, tenured economics professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and part-time professor at the University of Stirling in the UK. He makes frequent tv and radio appearances and is a Bloomberg TV contributing editor and writes a column in the Guardian newspaper. He was an external member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) from June 2006 to May 2009. While on the MPC David voted consistently for low interest rates well ahead of the other ... Read More