Daily Inspiration Quote by James Meade

A sentence like this is bureaucratic on purpose: it flattens a whole decade of institutional life into two calm coordinates, tenure and title. James Meade isn’t trying to impress you with drama; he’s signaling credibility in the language economists and civil servants trust most - dates, roles, continuity. The stripped-down cadence ("remained... till 1947") reads like a ledger entry, and that’s the point. It performs the ethic of the technocrat: seriousness without self-mythology.

The specific intent is almost certainly record-keeping, the kind you’d find in a memoir, CV, or an institutional history. But the subtext is louder than the syntax. In a period bookended by the Great Depression’s aftermath and World War II’s restructuring of the state, “the section” isn’t just a workplace; it’s the engine room where policy got designed under pressure. By noting he became Director in 1946, Meade quietly marks a moment of ascent right as Britain pivoted to postwar planning: rationing’s long tail, the new welfare state, the international order being rebuilt (Bretton Woods institutions coming online), and macroeconomic management becoming a central governmental craft.

There’s also a subtle self-positioning here. “I remained” frames him as steady and embedded, not a roving academic celebrity. The proximity of 1946 and 1947 hints at a brief directorship, inviting a second question without answering it: did he leave by choice, by reorganization, or because the postwar technocracy was already shifting? The line works because it withholds narrative while still leaving a faint political silhouette behind the administrative facts.