James Meade

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The Utopian Economist

By Susan Howson

Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics

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James Meade

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A comprehensive biography on James Meade based on archival sources, describing his life and career, at Oxford and the League of Nations before the war, in wartime government service and at the London School of Economics and Cambridge, giving equal attention to his theoretical work and to his policy ideas.

Biography of a major British Nobel Prize winning economist who made important contributions to British and international economic policy.

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James Meade was a highly influential British economist who made significant contributions to both theoretical economics and economic policy. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on the theory of international economic policy and was one of the first economists to serve in the wartime Economic Section of the Cabinet Offices, becoming Director in 1946. Among his many successes in applying theory to policy are the first official national income accounts, 'Keynesian' employment policies and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. This comprehensive biography of Meade's life and career, based on archival sources, covers both his achievements in theoretical economics and his contributions to the development of British and international economic policy during and after the Second World War. It will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of economics in the twentieth century.

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James Meade

By Susan Howson

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ISBN: 9781009652476

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Cambridge University Press

Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 49.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 1398g

Pages: 1002

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About the Author

Susan Howson is a Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto; she has also held visiting positions in the International Division of the Bank of England, Nuffield College Oxford and Wolfson College Cambridge. She has published several books on British economic policy in the 20th century, Domestic Monetary Management in Britain 1919–38 (Cambridge University Press 1975), The Economic Advisory Council 1930–1939 (with Donald Winch) (Cambridge University Press 1977) and British Monetary Policy 1945–51 (1992), and edited The Collected Papers of James Meade (3 vols, 1988) and, with Donald Moggridge, The Wartime Diaries of Lionel Robbins and James Meade and the Cabinet Office Diary of James Meade (1990). She wrote the definitive biography of Lionel Robbins (Cambridge University Press 2011) at the request of his family and edited his major articles and lectures (1997 and 2018). Besides two prizes for her early work and two senior research fellowships she was made a Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society in 2019.

James Meade