The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. — James Meade Copy Share Image
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. — James Meade Copy Share Image
From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. — James Meade Copy Share Image
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation… — James Meade Copy Share Image
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their… — James Meade Copy Share Image
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted… — James Meade Copy Share Image
But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought… — James Meade Copy Share Image
Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker… — James Meade Copy Share Image
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the… — James Meade Copy Share Image
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed… — James Meade Copy Share Image
I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946. — James Meade Copy Share Image
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy.… — James Meade Copy Share Image
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can,… — James Meade Copy Share Image
