Anthony Venables

 ( 1953 Births ) 

Anthony James Venables, CBE, (born 25 April 1953), is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

Venables is known as one of the pioneers of New economic geography. He co-authored along with Paul Krugman and Masahisa Fujita 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 International Growth Centre. From 2005 to 2008, he held the position of Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development.

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Education Venables studied economics at Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained his B.A. 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. He is a /ref>

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Selected bibliography

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Books

• (1991). 9780333546857, In association with the Centre for International Economics, University of Southampton. ISBN 9780333546857
• (2025). 9780262561471, MIT Press. ISBN 9780262561471
• (2025). 9780199278633, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199278633
• (2025). 9780230290228, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230290228

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External links

• Venables' page at Oxford

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