THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE

by

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, C.B.
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge

New York
Harcourt, Brace and Howe

1920





PREFACE


The writer of this book was temporarily attached to the British
Treasury during the war and was their official representative at the
Paris Peace Conference up to June 7, 1919; he also sat as deputy for
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. He
resigned from these positions when it became evident that hope could
no longer be entertained of substantial modification in the draft
Terms of Peace. The grounds of his objection to the Treaty, or rather
to the whole policy of the Conference towards the economic problems of
Europe, will appear in the following chapters. They are entirely of a
public character, and are based on facts known to the whole world.