To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one’s supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
James Meade Quotes
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
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| Birth: | 23rd June, 1907 |
| Death: | 22nd December, 1995 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Economist |
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James Edward Meade was born in Swanage, Dorset, England. He 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." He studied at Malvern College, Oriel College, Oxford, Christ's College, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as professor at London School of Economics from 1947-57 and professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University from 1957-68. He wrote several books include: The Rate of Interest in a Progressive State, The Theory of International Economic Policy, Principles of Political Economy, The Intelligent Radical's Guide To Economic Policy, and Liberty, Equality and Efficiency.
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