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James Meade

1907 - 1995

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James Edward Meade FBA (23 June 1907 – 22 December 1995) was a British economist who made major contributions to the theory of international trade and welfare economics. Along with Richard Kahn, James Meade helped develop the concept of the Keynesian multiplier while participating in the Cambridge circus. In the 1930s, he served as specialist adviser on behalf of the British government at the Economic and Financial Organization of the League of Nations.: 477  Born in Swanage, Meade was brought up in Bath, and educated at Lambrook prep school, Malvern College, and Oriel College, Oxford, where he initially read classics, before switching (in 1928) to the newly-established course in philosophy, politics, and economics. He was elected a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford in 1930, and was a lecturer in economics at Oxford from 1931 to 1937. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Meade is the 98th most popular economist (up from 130th in 2019), the 1,004th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,112th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Meade ranks 98 out of 414. Before him are Harry Markowitz, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Stone, Jean-Claude Trichet, John A. Hobson, and George Stigler. After him are Claudia Goldin, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Dale T. Mortensen, Thomas Mun, Bengt Holmström, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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Among people born in 1907, James Meade ranks 64. Before him are Emilie Schindler, Ray Milland, Miklós Rózsa, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, Ko Takamoro, and Ernesto Geisel. After him are Lê Duẩn, Sigvard Bernadotte, Shiro Teshima, Benjamin Sheares, Junji Nishikawa, and Yoshiko Kawashima. Among people deceased in 1995, James Meade ranks 54. Before him are Don Cherry, Alonzo Church, Miklós Rózsa, Ștefan Kovács, Ko Takamoro, and César Rodríguez Álvarez. After him are Roger Zelazny, Mária Telkes, Rory Gallagher, John Vincent Atanasoff, Ernest Gellner, and Krešimir Ćosić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Meade ranks 1,004 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Chippendale (1718), Julie Walters (1950), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Julia Gillard (1961), Jony Ive (1967), and Richard Wilson (1936). After him are Robert Hichens (1882), James Thomson (1700), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517), Peter Shilton (1949), and Tony Buzan (1942).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, James Meade ranks 17. Before him are Lionel Robbins (1898), Benjamin Graham (1894), Beatrice Webb (1858), William Stanley Jevons (1835), Richard Stone (1913), and John A. Hobson (1858). After him are Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), Thomas Mun (1571), James Mirrlees (1936), James Mill (1773), Clive Granger (1934), and Tony Atkinson (1944).

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