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

- 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…

- James Meade

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

- 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 m…

- 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 w…

- 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 e…

- 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 thei…

- James Meade