James Meade

Meade was educated at Malvern College and attended Oriel College, Oxford in 1926 to read Greats , but switched to Philosophy, Politics And Economics and gained an outstanding first. His interest in economics grew from an influential postgraduate year at Trinity College, Cambridge (1930-1), where he held frequent discussions with leading economists of the time including Dennis Robertson and John Maynard Keynes .

After working in the League Of Nations and the Cabinet Office , he was the leading economist of the early years of Attlee's government, before taking professorships at LSE (1947-57) and Cambridge (1957-67).

His many books include:

''The Theory of International Economic Policy -- The Balance of Payments'' (1951)

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	1907 births

	1995 deaths

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	british economists

	nobel laureates in economics

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