The Economic Consequences of the Peace - Softcover

Keynes, John Maynard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479368709 ISBN 13: 9781479368709

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

John Maynard Keynes, wrote and published The Economic Consequences of the Peace after he was attached to the British Treasury during the war, deputy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council and the official representative at the Paris Peace Conference. Leaving this positions his objections to the Versailles Treaty are made clear through this book. The success of The Economic Consequences of the Peace make Keynes a leading economist as most of the British public agreed with his assessment that Germany was being treated unfairly by the treaty.

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From the Author:

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, 1883-1946, was born into an academic family. His father, John Nevile Keynes, was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge where he taught logic and political economy while his son was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Most importantly, Keynes revolutionized economics with his classic book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936).

From the Back Cover:

As the most important figures in the history of economics, the work of John Maynard Keynes is nearly without precedent in the history of economics.

THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF PEACE, first published in 1919, achieved great notoriety due of its contemptuous critique of the French premier as well as President Woodrow Wilson. Keynes criticized the Allied victors for signing the Treaty of Versailles in 1920, which would have ruinous consequences for Europe. At the time, few world and economic leaders appreciated his criticisms as Keynes saw his worst fears realized in the rise of Adolf Hitler and the resulting devastation of World War II.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1479368709
• ISBN 13: 9781479368709
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142