Government Intervention in the Post-War Economy

The Economic Section of the War Cabinet Offices commenced work on post-war employment policy early in 1941 (see Volume I, pp. 171–183). Later that year Meade suggested that this should be supplemented by consideration of other post-war economic problems that might require state intervention. The paper reprinted below was written in April 1942; Meade’s later work in the Economic Section on the issues of ‘socialisation’ raised there is reflected in the three following papers. (Public Record Office T230/34 and 14; Meade Papers 312).