Overview
- Includes interviews with family-members and associates, involving P. Dasgupta, M. Weale, D. Vines and S. Howson
- Provides rare secondary material on Meade
- Looks at the economics, politics and life of James Edward Meade
Part of the book series: Great Thinkers in Economics (GTE)
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About this book
This book reviews James Meade's prolific contribution to economics and its lasting impact. Few economists have written so much and on so many different topics. Meade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 (jointly with Bertil Ohlin) for his contribution to international economics, but could just as easily have been awarded this for his contribution to the economics and politics of the managed economy. His commitment to the middle ground, neither free market nor command, runs through the whole of his published work, from Planning and the Price Mechanism in the shadow of post-war rationing to The Intelligent Radical’s Guide to Economic Policy and Full Employment Regained? when inflation combined with stagnation reopened the debate between the monetarists and the Keynesians. Meade was active in politics, most prominently in the debates in the 1960s about the European Economic Community and in the 1980s on the formation of Britain’s Social DemocraticParty. As a person, he can best be described as a cultured Englishman, quiet and open, much in the mould of Coase, Mirrlees or Hicks.
This book draws upon the whole of Meade’s published work. It incorporates insights from unpublished papers and surviving correspondence kept at the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as interviews with family members and associates. The book will be of interest to economists but also to the students of politics and philosophy that Meade himself would have wanted to reach.
Keywords
- Planning and the Price Mechanism
- The Intelligent Radical’s Guide to Economic Policy
- Principles of Political Economy
- Neoclassical Theory of Economic Growth
- Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy
- Planning and the Price Mechanism
- Liberty, Equality and Efficiency
- The Balance of Payments and Trade and Welfare
- Introduction to Economic Analysis
- The New Industrial State
- Taxes
- European Economic Community
- Social Democratic Party
- Post-war
- James Edward Meade
- History of Economic Thought
- Nobel Prize in Economics
- Full Employment Regained?
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: James Edward Meade
Authors: David Reisman
Series Title: Great Thinkers in Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69281-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69280-7Published: 07 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88747-0Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69281-4Published: 21 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-6276
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6284
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 275
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Economic History, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, International Political Economy