Anthony James Venables,

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, (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 New economic geography. He co-authored along with

Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American New Keynesian economics, New Keynesian economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He ...

and

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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

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, 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 a constituent college 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 was ad ...

. He is a

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. He was made a

of the

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in May 2025.https://res.org.uk/the-royal-economic-society-announces-founding-fellows/

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 Fellows of the Royal Economic Society