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13 quotes by James Meade

James Edward Meade CB, FBA (23 June 1907 – 22 December 1995) 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." Meade was born in Swanage, Dorset. He was educated at Malvern College and attended Oriel College, Oxford in 1926 to read Greats, but...
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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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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... →

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My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and... →

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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... →

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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... →

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