James E. Meade's Birth Card: The 7 of Clubs

In the record

James Edward Meade FBA (23 June 1907 – 22 December 1995) was a British economist who made major contributions to the theory of international trade and welfare economics. The birth-card coordinate for June 23 is the 7 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1977 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1977 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements

The 7 of Clubs coordinate

James E. Meade's birthday maps to the 7 of Clubs (The Analytical Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on James E. Meade. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take a claim apart until the usable piece is left, then you use it.

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James E. Meade in the public record

Along with Richard Kahn, James Meade helped develop the concept of the Keynesian multiplier while participating in the Cambridge circus. In the 1930s, he served as specialist adviser on behalf of the British government at the Economic and Financial Organization of the League of Nations. Born in Swanage, Meade was brought up in Bath, and educated at Lambrook prep school, Malvern College, and Oriel College, Oxford, where he initially read classics, before switching (in 1928) to the newly-established course in philosophy, politics, and economics. He was elected a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford in 1930, and was a lecturer in economics at Oxford from 1931 to 1937. During the Second World War, he was recalled to the Economic Section of the Secretariat of the War Cabinet, which he chaired from 1946 to 1947. He was appointed CB in 1946, and served as President of the Royal Economic Society from 1964 to 1966. While his work was not confined by political boundaries, he advised the Labour Party in the 1930s, and was a member of the Social Democratic Party during the 1980s. He once said that he had "my heart to the left, and my brain to the right".

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article James Meade (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Diamonds

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Strategic thinking about resources and power

James Edward Meade FBA (23 June 1907 – 22 December 1995) was a British economist who made major contributions to the theory of international trade and welfare economics.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: economics, economist, trade.

Also on the record

1. In 1976 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath.
2. Along with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977 "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements".
3. In 1981 he attracted attention as one of the 364 economists who signed a letter to The Times questioning Margaret Thatcher's economic policies, warning that it would only result in deepening the prevailing depression.
4. Atkinson, A.B; Weale, Martin (2000).

Other laureates with this card

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• Andrew Z. Fire — 2006 Physiology or Medicine
• Christian Lange — 1921 Peace
• David Trimble — 1998 Peace
• Edvard I. Moser — 2014 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward A. Doisy — 1943 Physiology or Medicine
• Emmanuelle Charpentier — 2020 Chemistry
• Ernest Hemingway — 1954 Literature
• Jack Steinberger — 1988 Physics
• John R. Mott — 1946 Peace
• John R. Vane — 1982 Physiology or Medicine
• Joseph H. Taylor Jr. — 1993 Physics
• 12 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is James E. Meade's birth card?

The 7 of Clubs. June 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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