James Edward Meade
James Edward Meade (born June 23, 1907 in Swanage , † December 22, 1995 in Cambridge ) was a British economist . Together with Bertil Gotthard Ohlin , he received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 1977 for their "groundbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and capital movements".
Life
From 1931 to 1937 Meade was a lecturer in economics at Hertford College , Oxford . From 1937 to 1939 he worked for the League of Nations in Geneva . From 1947 to 1957 he was Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics . From 1957 to 1974 he was Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge . Since 1951 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy . In 1966 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1981 to the National Academy of Sciences .
Meade dealt with the stability criteria for foreign trade in open economies . He worked as an advisor to the British Labor Party and was involved in the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ). He advocated the creation of an international oversight of world trade .
literature
- AB Atkinson, Martin Weale: James Edward Meade, 1907-1995 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 105 , 2000, pp. 473-500 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).
Individual evidence
- ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1977 , Nobelprize.org (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about James Edward Meade in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1977 award ceremony for James Meade
- James Edward Meade in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meade, James Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swanage |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 1995 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |