James E. Meade

J. E. Meade is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge. From 1947 to 1957 he was Professor of Commerce at the London School of Economics, producing the work in international trade and payments for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1977. Since 1957, he has worked in Cambridge as Professor of Political Economy, as Senior Research Fellow at Christ's College, and finally in retirement where he has produced studies on a wide range of topics including economic growth, fiscal policy, distribution of income and wealth, and the control of wages and prices.