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James Meade

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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 the expression MV = PT.


— James Meade


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


— James Meade


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


— James Meade


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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 was now my intention to rewrite this work.


— James Meade


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


— James Meade


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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 their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.


— James Meade


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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 mass unemployment and international economics.


— James Meade


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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 Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.


— James Meade


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He was educated at Malvern College and attended Oriel College Oxford in 1926 to read Greats but switched to Philosophy Politics and Economics and gained an outstanding first. For example he showed that the labour-managed firm (or worker cooperatives) need not respond inefficiently to price rises even in theory. Meade along with young enthusiasts such as Roy Harrod Henry Phelps Brown Charlie Hitch Robert Hall Lindley Fraser Maurice Allen and Eric Hargreaves who was his old tutor at Oriel College started the concept of teaching economics as a regular subject for examination which was relatively new at Oxford.

After working in the League of Nations and the Cabinet Office he was the leading economist of the early years of Attlee's government before taking professorships at LSE (1947–57) and Cambridge (1957–67). He was educated at Malvern College and attended Oriel College Oxford in 1926 to read Greats but switched to Philosophy Politics and Economics and gained an outstanding first. His interest in economics grew from an influential postgraduate year at Trinity College Cambridge (1930–31) where he held frequent discussions with leading economists of the time including Dennis Robertson and John Maynard Keynes.

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