1920 – Economic Consequences of Peace – Keynes | First American Edition

John Maynard Keynes was a 20th-century British economist most known for his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

“This work was widely acclaimed by the public because it disclosed, to a far greater extent than anything up to that time, the proceedings at the Versailles Conference, where the treaty with Germany was being drafted. Keynes, who attended these meetings as a member of the British Treasure delegation, showed himself to be no meek author, but a brilliant writer who was determined to deliver his message to the world and be heard. The gospel he sought to preach was that the treat was ‘an act of wickedness and folly”. (Cammarosano, 70)

Keynes strongly protested the imposition of large reparations on Germany and insisted the terms of the treaty never be enforced. This book made Keynes extremely popular with the public, but extremely unpopular with the government. (Breit, 67)

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
• Author(s): John Maynard Keynes
• Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace and Howe
• Edition: First edition, 1920.
• Binding: Cloth hardcover
• Format: (8vo), single volume
• Size:  8.25 x 5.5 in (21 x 14 cm)
• Collation: [6], 298 pp
• Contents Include:
  • Account of the Paris Peace Conference
  • Examination of German reparations
  • Discussion of European economic conditions
• Reference(s): Breit 67; Cammarosano 70

Condition:

Very Good. Tight and secure cloth binding with gilt retained on the spine. Some rubbing at corners and staining to edges. Pages generally clean and complete.

Why Collect This?

• First American edition
• Early printing of a major twentieth century economic text
• Important work in modern political economy

Item Number: #50075