Anthony James Venables,

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, (born 25 April 1953), is a British

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and the BP Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics,

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. Venables is known as one of the pioneers of

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. He co-authored along with

Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, Krugman was t ...

and

Masahisa Fujita is a Japanese economist who has studied regional science and Urban economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy (New Economic Geography). He is a professor at Konan University and an adjunct professor at Institute of Economic Research, ...

the influential book ''The Spatial Economy - Cities, Regions and International Trade'' (2001). 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

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. From 2005 to 2008, he held the position of Chief Economist at the UK

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Education

Venables studied economics at

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Iris ...

, where he obtained his

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in 1974. After completing his undergraduate degree, he then took up his studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He then became a lecturer at various universities before completing his D.Phil. in economics in 1984 from

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms ...

. He is a

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Selected bibliography

Books

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References

External links

Venables' page at Oxford
{{DEFAULTSORT:Venables, Anthony 1953 births Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford British economists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of New College, Oxford International economists Living people Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford Fellows of the Econometric Society