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James Meade

"Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

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"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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James Meade
"Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray."

Parenting

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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 was now my intention to rewrite this work."

Work

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

College

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James Meade
"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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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 and further away from an understanding of the whole."

Work

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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 expression MV = PT."

Thought

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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 mass unemployment and international economics."

Economy

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James Meade
"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."

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James Meade
"Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy."

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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 their relevance for the formulation of economic policy."

Policy

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