James Edward Meade , born the June 23rd 1907 with Swanage in the Dorset and dead the December 22nd 1995 with Cambridge, was a economist English. He accepted in 1977 the “Nobel Prize” of economy, with Norwegian Bertil Ohlin, for his contribution to the international international movement of capital and theory of exchange.

Life

After having followed studies in Malvern College and Oriel College to Oxford, it spent one year to Trinity College to the Université of Cambridge where, following frequent discussions with economists like Dennis Robertson and John Maynard Keynes, it developed an interest shown for the economy. He worked then with the league of the nations, and he was the principal economist of the government of Clement Attlee. He became thereafter professor with the London School off Economics of 1947 at 1957 and Professor with the Université of Cambridge, of 1957 with 1967.