James Meade 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.”
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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 and further away from an understanding of the whole.”
-- James MeadeSource : "James E. Meade - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2014.
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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.”
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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.”
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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 was now my intention to rewrite this work.”
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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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“Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.”
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“My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.”
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“This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.”
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“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press
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