Comment: The BoE's 'brain on the plane'

David Blanchflower came out fighting Wednesday 24 May in an assured performance before the Treasury Select Committee. The appointment of the US-based academic to the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has been controversial, but he maintains that he can juggle an academic career with the demands of being an MPC member in the UK.

COMMENT BY CENTRALBANKNEWS

Blanchflower, who is an economics professor at the Ivy League Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and has lived in the US for the last

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