1930s Quote by James Meade Download Open image “In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.” — James Meade ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1930s Mass Threat Two Unemployment War
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard. — William O'Neill Copy Share Image
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or… — Charles Issawi Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K.… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war,… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes 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
After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only… — James Meade Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with… — James Frain Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews.… — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
