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James Meade was a British economist who made significant contributions to economic theory and policy. His work matters because it influenced how governments think about managing their economies and addressing issues like unemployment and inflation.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1977
“for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Swanage
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral student
- Pranab Bardhan
- Field of work
- economics
- Image
- James Meade Nobel.jpg
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- James Meade
- name in native language
- James Meade
- date of birth
- 1907-06-23
- date of death
- 1995-12-22
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Biography
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