The Collected Papers of James Meade. Employment and Inflation, Value Distribution and Growth

Howson, Sue

ISBN 10: 0043311156 / ISBN 13: 9780043311158

Published by Routledge, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Papers of James Meade. Employment and Inflation, Value Distribution and Growth
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0043311156
• ISBN 13: 9780043311158
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Dust Jacket

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Synopsis

James Meade, awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977, has over five decades written and published on theoretical and applied problems in most fields of economics. He has always been as concerned with problems of economic policy as with purely theoretical issues, and was one of the early British economists to serve in government, in the wartime Economic Section of the Cabinet Office, of which he became Director immediately after World War II, succeeding Lionel Robbins. This is the first of four volumes of his Collected Papers, containing his most important work on theoretical and applied aspects of employment and inflation from 1933-1985. His contribution to the pioneering work of Richard Stone and himself on the first official national income and expenditure accounts for the UK is included, as are his major contributions to wartime planning of postwar employment policy (which resulted in the 1944 White Paper on Employment Policy). Other contributions range from pre-war papers on Keynesian economics to his proposals for tackling "stagflation" in the 1970s and 1980s. As many of Meade's published works are not now easily obtainable, their inclusion with the unpublished material should provide a valuable source of reference for economists and for economic and political historians.

About the Author

Susan Howson is Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto. She was educated at the London School of Economics (1964 1969) and at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her PhD in 1975. She has held visiting positions in the International Division of the Bank of England (1979 1981); Nuffield College, Oxford (1984 1985); and Wolfson College, Cambridge (1991 1993). Professor Howson is the author of Domestic Monetary Management in Britain 1919 38 (Cambridge University Press, 1975) and British Monetary Policy, 1945 51 (1993) and co-author with Donald Winch of The Economic Advisory Council (Cambridge University Press, 1977). She edited The Collected Papers of James Meade (3 volumes, 1988) and co-edited with Donald Moggridge the wartime diaries of Lionel Robbins and Nobel Laureate James Meade, and the Cabinet Office diary of James Meade (1990). Professor Howson began research on the life and work of Lionel Robbins in the early 1990s. She edited a selection of his major articles in economic theory and economic policy under the title Economic Science and Political Economy (1997). Her work on British economic policy has been published in The Economic Journal, the Economic History Review, History of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic History and Oxford Economic Papers, among other publications. She is also a contributor to the Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (Structural Change and Growth, Volume III, 2004). The recipient of two prizes for research in economic history, Professor Howson has also held two Connaught Senior Research Fellowships in the Social Sciences, in 2004 and 2007, for her work on Lionel Robbins.