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The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. Very few of us realize with conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated, unreliable, temporary nature of the economic organization by which Western Europe has lived…
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Just after World War I, Keynes was part of the British team negotiating reparations at the Versailles Peace Treaty. He was so angry about the way the Allies were insisting on punitive penalties on the defeated Germans that were far more than that country could ever pay, that he resigned in protest, stormed off to his friends in the Bloomsbury Group who owned a house in the country, and in six weeks wrote this bitter yet very readable polemic.
He was…
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