After the outbreak of war, ... by James Meade, an English Economist

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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 disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.”

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Name: James Meade

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Jun 23, 1907

Date of Death: Dec 22, 1995

Profession: Economist

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

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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 disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.

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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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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 century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.

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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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