David Blanchflower is currently a tenured economics professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
17 Facts About David Blanchflower
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David Blanchflower is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, part-time professor at the University of Glasgow and a Bloomberg TV contributing editor.
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David Blanchflower was an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee from June 2006 to June 2009.
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British-born, Blanchflower is both a British and an American citizen, having moved to the United States in 1989.
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David Blanchflower was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
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David Blanchflower received an MSc at the University of Wales in 1981 and his PhD in 1985 at Queen Mary, University of London.
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David Blanchflower served as a Research Officer at the Institute for Employment Research at University of Warwick from 1984 to 1986, when he became a lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey, a post he held until 1989 when he moved to the United States.
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David Blanchflower has been a member of the editorial board of Small Business Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
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David Blanchflower has been a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and at the Canadian International Labour Network.
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Much of David Blanchflower's work has focused on the economics of happiness.
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David Blanchflower has posited a correlation between age and happiness, declining through the 20s, 30s, and 40s before increasing in retirement.
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David Blanchflower has been interviewed several times on NPR and New Hampshire Public Radio about his work in this area.
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David Blanchflower joined the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee in June 2006, replacing Stephen Nickell.
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David Blanchflower voted to maintain the interest rate in his first nine meetings, but to reduce interest rates in March 2007 and in every meeting from October 2007 through March 2009.
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David Blanchflower is the Bruce V Rauner professor of economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, part-time professor at the University of Stirling, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a contributing editor for Bloomberg TV.
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David Blanchflower quit the panel and said he would wind up his review of the role of the Bank of England on 28 June 2016 following the mass resignations of the Shadow Cabinet, joining them in calling for Corbyn to step down.
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In 2024, David Blanchflower signed a faculty letter expressing support for the actions of Dartmouth College president Sian Beilock, who ordered the arrests of 90 students and faculty members nonviolently protesting the Gaza war.