"But my shift to the serious study of……" — James Meade
"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 expression MV = PT."
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13 Quotes by James Meade
James Meade has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as…
- My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was…
- My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields…
- 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…
- 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…
- Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been…
- 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…
- After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years…
- To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group…