James Meade famous quotes

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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

#Expression #Serious #Belief
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

#Understanding #Fields #Expanding
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

#Jobs #Two #Unemployment
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

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

#War #Two #Evil
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

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

#College #Oxford #Economics

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Good design is serious business.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

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