The Economic Consequences of Peace
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · March 27, 2014
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- Who it’s for
- Keynes’s argument over the postwar settlement connects economic ideas to the politics that followed.
- Themes
- Versailles Treaty and public opinion, Postwar economic policy
- Genres
- Economic History, World War I History, Diplomacy
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace was written and published by John Maynard Keynes. After World War I, Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout the world and was critical in establishing a general opinion that the Versailles Treaty was a "Carthaginian peace."
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It helped to consolidate American public opinion against the treaty and involvement in the League of Nations. The perception by much of the British public that Germany had been treated unfairly in turn was a crucial factor in public support for appeasement. The success of the book established Keynes' reputation as a leading economist. When Keynes was a key player in establishing the Bretton Woods system in 1944, he remembered the lessons from Versailles as well as the Great Depression. The Marshall Plan after Second World War is a similar system to that proposed by Keynes in The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
Peace, with Consequences
Keynes’s argument over the postwar settlement connects economic ideas to the politics that followed.
Come here for
- A close look at economics shaping public opinion and international affairs
- The roots of Keynes’s later thinking on postwar cooperation
Expect
- A historically grounded argument, not a neutral account of Versailles
- Ideas whose influence reached well beyond the peace conference
Where it sits
| World War I History | 78% |
|---|---|
| Diplomacy | 48% |
| Economic History | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Economic Trends
- Economic History
- International Economics
- Economic Theory
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- Authors
- John Maynard Keynes
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- March 27, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Versailles Treaty and public opinion · Postwar economic policy
- Reading lane
- Economic Trends