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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 read classics till 1928 before switching to the newly-established course in philosophy, politics, and economics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Meade has received more than 194,975 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. James Meade is the 130th most popular economist, the 1,111th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 19th most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Meade ranks 130 out of 414. Before him are Knut Wicksell, Robert J. Shiller, Tjalling Koopmans, Alan Greenspan, George Stigler, and John Harsanyi. After him are Eugene Fama, Ernest Mandel, Christopher A. Sims, Robert C. Merton, Angus Deaton, and W. Arthur Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, James Meade ranks 81. Before him are Trường Chinh, Nicolaus von Below, Ko Takamoro, Leonor Fini, Jan Patočka, and Takeo Wakabayashi. After him are Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Helmuth James von Moltke, René Char, Cab Calloway, Antonín Puč, and Run Run Shaw. Among people deceased in 1995, James Meade ranks 66. Before him are Lola Flores, Günter Guillaume, Jeremy Brett, Georges Canguilhem, Ko Takamoro, and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark. After him are Elizabeth Montgomery, Ernest Mandel, Heiner Müller, Krešimir Ćosić, Yves Congar, and Takeo Fukuda.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Meade ranks 1,111 out of 8,785. Before him are George Shaw (1751), Stevie Young (1956), Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (1473), Winifred Wagner (1897), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), and Harriet Taylor Mill (1807). After him are Colin Dexter (1930), Frederic Leighton (1830), Sydney Chaplin (1885), Colin McRae (1968), Hugh Griffith (1912), and Henry Royce (1863).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, James Meade ranks 19. Before him are Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Mill (1773), Thomas Mun (1571), Richard Stone (1913), Joan Robinson (1903), and Harriet Martineau (1802). After him are Angus Deaton (1945), Clive Granger (1934), James Mirrlees (1936), Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), Henry Sidgwick (1838), and Lionel Robbins (1898).

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