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I was in London for five years, first at the LSE and then at the National Institute. There is much to describe. I got to know Harry Johnson, who became my patron-saint, and numerous young economists, some future stars, several of whom played a role in my future life: John Black, Richard Lipsey, Kelvin Lancaster, Tad Rybczynski, Peter Kenen, Richard Cooper, Bob Mundell, Tom Klein, and several others.
James Meade was my supervisor; he was impressive in what he had achieved in his work earlier in the British government, and he was extremely polite. For his work, he won the Nobel Prize. My thesis was good training, though (with hindsight) not impressive. But, surprisingly, I had started on my work on the theory of protection, which turned out to be much more significant.
I managed to see the Coronation procession and, in 1957, to get married.
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All the information above, and more, about James Meade, can be found in a long and fascinating article on Meade in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Vol 3, written by David Vines, a Melbourne graduate and later colleague of Meade in Cambridge.
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Corden, W.M. (2017). The London School of Economics. In: Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country. Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65166-8_10
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