Background
MEADE, James was born on June 23, 1907 in Swanage, Dorset. Son of Charles Hippisley Meade and Kathleen (née Cotton-Stapleton).
MEADE, James was born on June 23, 1907 in Swanage, Dorset. Son of Charles Hippisley Meade and Kathleen (née Cotton-Stapleton).
He was educated in Malvern College and Oriel College, Oxford, where he held classical scholarships. He graduated with a first in 1928, and proceeded two years later to acquire another first, this time in the newly established School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. At age 23 he was elected to a Fellowship at Hertford College and a Lectureship in Economics (1930-7); but Oxford was not overstocked with economists and he spent the academic year 1930-31 at Trinity College, Cambridge. Works of John Maynard Keynes had a great influence on James Meade.
Meade made lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford in 1931 and continued till 1937. Meade was assigned with the responsibility of teaching the whole subject of economic theory. The economics of mass-unemployment and international economics interested Meade in particular.
Meade made the member of the economics section of the League of Nations in Geneva in 1937. He worked as the main editor of the journal "World Economic Survey" and published the 17th and the 18th editions.
In 1940 James Meade became a member of the Economic Section of the War Cabinet Secretariat in England and remained member till 1947 rising to the post of Director in 1946. Meade was joined by Lionel Robbins and Keynes and together they used the section to solve everyday economic problems ranging from the rationing system to the pricing policy of nationalized companies.
Meade became the professor of trade at London School of Economics in 1947. In this period Meade started teaching international economics, more precisely the Theory of International Economic Policy and wrote books on economics.
In 1957 Meade moved from London to the chair of political economy in Cambridge, which he held till 1967 after which he resigned to become a senior research fellow of Christ's college, Cambridge.Meade left the fellowship till the retirement age in 1974.
In 1974 Meade became a chairman of a committee set up by the Institute for Fiscal Studies to examine the structure of direct taxation in the United Kingdom. The committee consisted of a number of first-rate economic theorists and of leading practitioners in tax law, accountancy and administration.
Public Works in their International Aspect (1933)
The Rate of Interest in a Progressive State (1933, economics)
Economic Analysis and Policy (1936, economics)
The Economic Basis of a Durable Peace (1940, economics)
The Theory of International Economic Policy (1951-55, economics, 2 volumes)
A Geometry of International Trade (1952, economics)
The Theory of Customs Unions (1955, economics)
The Control of Inflation (1958, economics)
Efficiency, Equality, and the Ownership of Property (1964, economics)
Principles of Political Economy (1965-76, economics, 4 volumes)
The Intelligent Radical's Guide to Economic Policy (1975, economics)
Macroeconomics, economic growth