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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. "
Children
War
Three
" 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. "
Economics
Belief
Serious
" From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. "
College
Lecturer
Oxford
" 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. "
Three
Study
My Life
" 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. "
War
Intention
Mind
" In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. "
Two
War
Unemployment
" I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946. "
Becoming
Section
Member
" 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. "
Gone
Student
She
" 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. "
Always
Economic
Policy
" 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. "
Job
Teach
Two
" 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. "
Up
Policy
Paper
" 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. "
Understanding
Knowledge
Hard
" 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. "
Intellectual
Treat
Group
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