Anthony Venables CBE | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Venables in 2010 | |
| Born | Anthony James Venables 25 April 1953 |
| Nationality | British |
| Academic career | |
| Field | International Economics, Spatial Economics |
| Institution | University of Oxford, International Growth Centre |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Oxford |
Anthony James Venables, CBE, (born 25 April 1953),[1] is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
Venables is known as one of the pioneers of New economic geography. He co-authored along with Paul Krugman and Masahisa Fujita the influential book The Spatial Economy - Cities, Regions and International Trade (2001).[2]
He is the current director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre). He also serves on the Steering Group of the International Growth Centre. From 2005 to 2008, he held the position of Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development.
- ^ "Venables, Anthony". Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
(Anthony Venables, Anthony James Venables, Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Southampton, b. 04-25-53)
- ^ Venables, Anthony; Fujita, Masahisa (2001). The spatial economy: cities, regions and international trade. Cambridge, Mmssachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262561471.