James Meade Quotes

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 become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.
James Meade

War, Children, After

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.
James Meade

Thought, Study, Serious

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.
James Meade

College, Economics, Fellow

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 how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.
James Meade

Life, Learned, Study

I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.
James Meade

Director, Becoming, Section

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 was now my intention to rewrite this work.
James Meade

Work, War, Mind

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
James Meade

Great, War, Two

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 there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
James Meade

Parents, Her, She

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 for the formulation of economic policy.
James Meade

Between, Whole, Economic

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 of mass unemployment and international economics.
James Meade

Job, Two, Whole

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 maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
James Meade

Government, Second, White

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

Work, Knowledge, Hard

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 intellectual treat.
James Meade

Treat, Year, Group

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: June 23, 1907

Died: December 22, 1995

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