ABSTRACT
The Economic Section of the War Cabinet Offices began to consider problems of post-war reconstruction early in 1941; Meade wrote the first of a long series of memoranda on the subject in February. The following papery the first of those of which Meade chose to retain a copy when he left the Section in 1947, is dated 8 July 1941. It was widely circulated outside the Section and was one of the first documents to be considered by the inter-departmental Committee on Post-war Internal Economic Problems, which began meeting in November 1941 (Meade Papers 312, Public Record Office T230/13 and 66, CAB87/54).
