James Edward Meade

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 It incorporates insights from unpublished papers and surviving correspondence kept at the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as interviews with family members and associates.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.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Social Policy.- Chapter 3. Taxation and Expenditure.- Chapter 4. Growth and Development.- Chapter 5. The International Economy.- Chapter 6. Customs Unions.- Chapter 7. Demand Management.- Chapter 8. Stagflation.- Chapter 9. Competition and Control.- Chapter 10. The Cooperative Way.- Chapter 11. Economic Planning.- Chapter 12. What Meade Meant.

About the author

David Reisman is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Surrey, UK, and Senior Associate at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: David Reisman
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9783319692807
• ISBN: 978-3-31-969280-7
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 217 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Illustrations: X, 275 p.
• Series: Great Thinkers in Economics; Great Thinkers in Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Internationale Beziehungen, Wirtschaftsgeschichte, B, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Wohlfahrtsökonomie, Philosophy of Science, International Relations, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, auseinandersetzen, Economics and Finance, Political Economy, Welfare economics, Management science, Philosophy and science, International Political Economy, History of Economic Thought and Methodology, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Microeconomics, International Political Economy’, Social Choice and Welfare, Nobel Prize in Economics, Full Employment Regained?