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Meek was born in Wellington, New Zealand, where he received his early education at both school and university. He went to Cambridge in 1946 to take a PhD under the supervision of Piero Sraffa (1949). Meek was appointed to a Lectureship in Glasgow University in 1948, during A.L. Macfie’s tenure of the Adam Smith Chair.
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Skinner, A. (2018). Meek, Ronald Lindley (1917–1978). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1035
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