Cox, Michael (2020) The making of a masterpiece: John Maynard Keynes and the economic consequences of the peace. Global Perspectives, 1 (1). ISSN 2575-7350
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In December 1919 a former British official who had been present in Paris during the long negotiations leading to the Versailles peace treaty published a sixty-thousand-word tract. In just under two hundred pages, he first explained why the European order before the First World War had been fundamentally unstable; he then went on to attack those on the allied side who, in his opinion, had failed so miserably to construct a genuine peace; and finally (and at much greater length) he argued, with a battery of economic facts, that treating Germany generously would be a far wiser course of action than—as in fact happened—treating it like a pariah. Vengeance may have played to the gallery, and keeping Germany down may have made sense to those who had suffered so profoundly as a result of its actions between 1914 and 1918.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2020 The Regents of the University of California. |
| Divisions: | International Relations |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2022 16:00 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2024 09:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116589 |
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