Introduction

David Reisman
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Chapter 1 in James Edward Meade, 2018, pp 1-27 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Meade was born in 1907 and died in 1995. Educated at Oxford, he also spent a year at Cambridge as a member of the ‘Cambridge Circus’ that discussed key macroeconomic issues in the years leading up to Keynes’s General Theory in 1936. After a number of early books and essays (some of them for the New Fabian Research Bureau), he joined the Economic Intelligence Service of the League of Nations and in the war the Economic Section of the War Cabinet Secretariat. From 1947 to 1957 he was Professor of Commerce at the London School of Economics, where he wrote The Theory of International Economic Policy (1951, 1955) for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1977. From 1957 until his retirement in 1969 he was Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge.

Keywords: Life; Professional career; Academic influences; ‘Cambridge Circus’; John Maynard Keynes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69281-4_1

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