James Meade Quotes

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• 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 by…
• 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…
• My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics…
• My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance…
• In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
• In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It…
• From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.
• Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the…
• Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel…
• I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.
• I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of…
• After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to…
• 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 an…

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