Book contents
- James Meade
- Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
- James Meade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Boyhood
- 2 Oriel College Oxford
- 3 Hertford College Oxford
- 4 A Married Don
- 5 Geneva
- 6 Wartime Whitehall, 1940–1941
- 7 Postwar Reconstruction, 1941–1942
- 8 1943
- 9 The Last Months of the War
- 10 The Postwar Labour Government
- 11 London and Geneva
- 12 The London School of Economics
- 13 International Trade and Economic Welfare
- 14 Cambridge
- 15 Mauritius
- 16 The Sixties
- 17 The Sixties Continued
- 18 Senior Research Fellow 1969–1974
- 19 The Meade Report
- 20 The Stagflation Project
- 21 Stagflation and the Share Economy
- 22 Agathotopia or a Good Place
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
Introduction
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Book contents
- James Meade
- Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
- James Meade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Boyhood
- 2 Oriel College Oxford
- 3 Hertford College Oxford
- 4 A Married Don
- 5 Geneva
- 6 Wartime Whitehall, 1940–1941
- 7 Postwar Reconstruction, 1941–1942
- 8 1943
- 9 The Last Months of the War
- 10 The Postwar Labour Government
- 11 London and Geneva
- 12 The London School of Economics
- 13 International Trade and Economic Welfare
- 14 Cambridge
- 15 Mauritius
- 16 The Sixties
- 17 The Sixties Continued
- 18 Senior Research Fellow 1969–1974
- 19 The Meade Report
- 20 The Stagflation Project
- 21 Stagflation and the Share Economy
- 22 Agathotopia or a Good Place
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series page
Summary
But apart from perhaps the national income estimates, he is remembered more for his academic work, especially his role in the 1930/1 ‘Cambridge Circus’ which set John Maynard Keynes on the path to his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), the first Keynesian textbook in economics; his contribution to the enquiries of the Oxford Economists Research Group; and his 1950s work on the theory of international economic policy, which won him a Nobel Prize in 1977, as well as a long series of academic articles and 30 books. This biography tells the story of his involvement in policymaking as well as the development of his more theoretical work in economics.
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- James MeadeThe Utopian Economist, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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