McKinley L. Blackburn is a U.S.-American economist and currently the James A. Morris Professor of Economics at the University of South Carolina.
In 2010, he was made the James A. Morris Professor of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business.
In 1989/90, Blackburn spent a year as visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
In terms of professional service, Blackburn has performed editorial duties for the Economics of Education Review since 2008.
[4] According to IDEAS/RePEc, Blackburn belongs to the top 6% of economists registered in the database in terms of research output.