David ‘Danny’ Blanchflower is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He has served as an external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee from 2006 until 2009. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Studies at the University of Munich and a Research Fellow at The Institute for the Study of Labor at the University of Bonn.
Danny is a labour economist who has published widely on wage determination; youth labour markets; entrepreneurship, trade unions and happiness. He has advised a number of international bodies including the ILO and the OECD, and was a member of a commission which examined the Swedish labor market. He has been a member of the editorial board of a number of journals. His book 'The Wage Curve' won Princeton University's Richard A Lester Prize.
Danny obtained his BA in Economics from the University of Leicester (1973), his Masters in Economics from the University of Wales (1983) and his PhD in Economics from the University of London (Queen Mary and Westfield - 1985) as well as an honorary masters degree from Dartmouth (1993).
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