Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace after 100 Years

Polemics and Policy

Patricia Clavin, Giancarlo Corsetti, Maurice Obstfeld, Adam Tooze

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009407502
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: Economics

The Economic Consequences of the Peace is one of the most famous books in the history of economic thought. It is also one of the most polemical. Published as a response to what Keynes saw as the grave errors of the Treaty of Versailles, the book predicted that war reparations and other harsh terms imposed on Germany would lead to its collapse, which in turn would lead to devastating consequences for Europe and the wider world. Predictions that we now know to have been all too accurate. Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace after 100 Years brings together an international team of experts to assess the legacy of Keynes's best-selling work. It compiles a series of wide-ranging chapters, exploring the varied influence of his ideas and policy contributions. Written in an accessible style, it recovers the importance of this history and examines the continued relevance of Keynes's controversial book.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Plates
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Lessons of Keynes’s Economic Consequences in a Turbulent Century
• 2 The Making of a Classic: Keynes and the Origins of The Economic Consequences of the Peace
• 3 Keynes’s Economic Consequences (1919): The Book and Its Critics
• 4 “Too Bad to Be True”: Swedish Economists on Keynes’s: The Economic Consequences of the Peace and German Reparations, 191 –29
• 5 Revisionism as Intellectual-Political Vindication, or the French Receptions of Consequences after the Two World Wars (1919–1946)
• 6 Between Cambridge, Paris, and Amsterdam
• 7 Keynes, the Transfer Problem, and Reparations
• 8 The Speculative Consequences of the Peace
• 9 Why Was Keynes Opposed to Reparations and a Carthaginian Peace?
• 10 One Case Where The Economic Consequences of the Peace Mattered: The Reshaping of Economic Mindset in Early Republican Turkey
• 11 Keynes and International Trade Politics after the First World War
• 12 Gold, International Monetary Cooperation, and the Tripartite Agreement of 1936
• 13 Exchange Rates, Tariffs and Prices in 1930s Britain
• 14 “Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary”: Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization
• 15 Keynes’s Arc of Discovery: From The Economic Consequences to Bretton Woods
• 16 Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, and Popular Perceptions of the First World War
• Index