The Economic Consequences of Peace
<p>Before becoming one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated economists, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-maynard-keynes">John Maynard Keynes</a> served as a financial representative for the British Treasury at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to negotiate the Versailles treaty which would officially end World War I. Keynes resigned from the treasury in protest about a month before the final treaty was signed, and <i>The Economic Consequences of the Peace</i> describes his rea