James Meade

British economist, LSE Professor of Commerce in 1949–50, and later joint winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work on international trade and capital movements. In this vault he appears as the administrator, not the trade theorist: his 7 December 1949 internal budget memo, quoted verbatim by Nicholas Barr from LSE's own archives, proposed how the School would fund Bill Phillips to build a second, improved MONIAC for LSE in 1950 — and is the actual documentary origin of the "£400" figure now popularly (and incorrectly) attached to the original 1949 prototype.

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• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-20-do-the-moniacs-400-build-cost-and-2.md