James Meade
| James E. Meade | |
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| Born |
23 June 1907 Swanage, England, UK |
| Died | 22 December 1995 (aged 88) Cambridge, England, UK |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Institution | London School of Economics |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition |
Neo-Keynesian economics |
| Alma mater |
Oriel College, Oxford Christ's College, Cambridge Malvern College |
| Doctoral students |
Jacques Parizeau |
| Influences | John Maynard Keynes |
| Influenced | Paul Krugman, Richard Stone, David Vines, Anthony Barnes Atkinson, Jacques Parizeau, John Rawls |
| Contributions | Theory of international trade and international capital movements |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1977) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
James Edward Meade CB, FBA (23 June 1907 – 22 December 1995) was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."
Meade was born in Swanage, Dorset. He was educated at Malvern College and attended Oriel College, Oxford in 1926 to read Greats, but switched to Philosophy, Politics and Economics and gained an outstanding first. His interest in economics grew from an influential postgraduate year at Christ's College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Cambridge (1930–31), where he held frequent discussions with leading economists of the time including Dennis Robertson and John Maynard Keynes.
After working in the League of Nations and the Cabinet Office, he was the leading economist of the early years of Attlee's government, before taking professorships at LSE (1947–57) and Cambridge (1957–67).
Meade was brought up in the city of Bath, Somerset in south-west England. He attended the Lambrook school in Berkshire from 1917 to 1921, where his education revolved around the Greek and Latin languages. In his time in Oriel College, Oxford, Meade switched at the end of his second year from Greats to Philosophy, Politics and Economics which was a very new concept at that time having started only in 1921. Meade's interest in economics grew due to various reasons.
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