James Meade Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils – mass unemployment and the threat of war.

  James Meade

• 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

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

  James Meade

• 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

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

  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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• 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

James Meade (13)

Birth:	23rd June, 1907
Death:	22nd December, 1995
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist

About

James Edward Meade was born in Swanage, Dorset, England. He was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements." He studied at Malvern College, Oriel College, Oxford, Christ's College, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as professor at London School of Economics from 1947-57 and professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University from 1957-68. He wrote several books include: The Rate of Interest in a Progressive State, The Theory of International Economic Policy, Principles of Political Economy, The Intelligent Radical's Guide To Economic Policy, and Liberty, Equality and Efficiency.

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