The Economic Consequences of the Peace

The Economic Consequences of the Peace is the 1919 book that made John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) world-famous. Resigning from the British delegation at Versailles, Keynes attacked the treaty’s reparations as economically impossible and prophesied the ruin they would bring to Europe, with portraits of Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George so cutting they are still quoted. The book shaped the entire interwar argument about the peace, and historians argue about its influence to this day. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.