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David Blanchflower to ask 'Where next for the UK economy?'

Professor David Blanchflower, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, will give an open lecture at the University of Kent on Wednesday 29 October.

Titled Where next for the UK economy? Professor Blanchflower's lecture will take place at 6pm in the Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, on the University's Canterbury campus. The lecture is free and open to all. There is disabled access to Keynes College and the lecture theatre.

In September, Professor Blanchflower was the lone voice on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee calling for a reduction of 50 basis points of the Bank Rate. His view that Britain's slowing economy needed immediate cuts in interest rates was reinforced when the committee voted in favour of a 0.5% reduction in the Bank Rate.

In addition to his role at the Bank of England, Professor Blanchflower is a labour economist and the Bruce V Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College in the United States.

Professor Blanchflower read Economics at the University of Leicester, took a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Birmingham and received an MSc in Economics from the University of Wales. In 1985, he gained his PhD at the University of London.

After a short time as a Research Officer at the University of Warwick, he moved to the University of Surrey, where he was a Lecturer in Economics from 1986. He moved to Dartmouth College in 1989, firstly as an Associate Professor and since 1993 as a full Professor. He was promoted to the Bruce V Rauner Chair in 2001.

Professor Blanchflower is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre of Economics at the University of Munich and at the Institute for the Study of Labor at the University of Bonn, and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling.

His numerous publications include: The Wage Curve, which won the Richard A Lester prize from Princeton University.

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Story published at 11:24am 27 October 2008