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James Meade

1907 - 1995

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James Edward Meade, (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Meade has received more than 142,623 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). James Meade is the 112th most popular economist (down from 104th in 2019), the 1,008th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 863rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Meade ranks 112 out of 315. Before him are Jacques Attali, Dale T. Mortensen, Lorenz von Stein, Zhou Youguang, Rudolf Hilferding, and Friedrich von Wieser. After him are Alfred Weber, Paul Krugman, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Finn E. Kydland, and Ernest Mandel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, James Meade ranks 68. Before him are Leonor Fini, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Roman Shukhevych, Lee Miller, Ernesto Geisel, and Ko Takamoro. After him are Emilie Schindler, Anne Desclos, Helmuth James von Moltke, Alexander R. Todd, Nicolaus von Below, and Lars Ahlfors. Among people deceased in 1995, James Meade ranks 58. Before him are Bob Ross, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jeremy Brett, Nathan Rosen, Ko Takamoro, and Carlos Monzón. After him are Ernest Mandel, Heiner Müller, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Joseph Needham, Günter Guillaume, and Mária Telkes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Meade ranks 1,008 out of 6,924. Before him are Eugen d'Albert (1864), Cozy Powell (1947), Cliff Williams (1949), Mairead Maguire (1944), Robbie Williams (1974), and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868). After him are Kenny Baker (1934), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Kristin Scott Thomas (1960), John William Polidori (1795), Michael Palin (1943), and Hugh Griffith (1912).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, James Meade ranks 17. Before him are Benjamin Graham (1894), William Stanley Jevons (1835), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Mill (1773), Thomas Mun (1571), and Richard Stone (1913). After him are Joan Robinson (1903), Clive Granger (1934), Kenneth E. Boulding (1910), James Mirrlees (1936), Angus Deaton (1945), and Henry Sidgwick (1838).

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