Bücher von John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes, a British economist, authored the guide "The Economic Consequence of the Peace." The guide was originally published in 1919 and is actually an evaluation of the Treaties of Versailles which completed World War I. Keynes was one of numerous British Treasury participants to the Versailles Peace Conference in addition to his insights are actually based on the personal experiences of his in the Conference.Keynes asserted the treaty's reparations and severe monetary steps on Germany had been far too punitive and would bring about severe economic problems in Europe. He thought that these actions would not simply affect Germany but additionally the economic stability in addition to healing of Europe postwar. Keynes was concerned the sizable reparations could cause an economic collapse of Germany, that may influence the economies of the winning places and furthermore, the majority of Europe.Keynes made several remarkable predictions that were really earlier. Keynes had warned the economic turbulence in addition to hyperinflation that characterized Germany in the 1920s, the rise of extremism and ultimate outbreak of World War II had been partly due to the financial situations necessary for the Treaty of Versailles.The guide is actually significant due to its economic analysis but additionally for affecting economic theory and international policy. Keynes established himself to become a high economist by using this particular function as being a base for his right after, much more well known publication, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, as well as Money," which basically transformed macroeconomic Theory as well as practice & government economic policies.

" Ce livre était principalement destiné à des lecteurs anglais et améri- cains. L'auteur a insisté sur les points qui, à son avis, intéressent un tel public. Il peut donc être utile, au début d'une traduction française, d'indi- quer nettement et brièvement quelques aspects de la situation, qui touchent particulièrement la France.Les chapitres qui suivent tendent à montrer entre autres choses que les délégués à la Conférence de Paris commirent deux graves erreurs à l'encontre de l'intérêt des alliés. En demandant l'impossible, ils abandonnèrent la proie pour l'ombre et perdront par la suite tout ce qu'ils croiront avoir obtenu. En concentrant leur attention sur des sujets poli- tiques, ils négligèrent l'unité économique de l'Europe, et la sécurité qu'ils crurent obtenir n'est qu'illusoire, - illusoire, parce qu'elle ne peut pas résulter de l'occupation de plus vastes frontières et parce que les artifices politiques actuels ne conviendront plus aux problèmes des années prochaines."

"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."-John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), by British economist John Maynard Keynes, is a masterly analysis of the world monetary situation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Keynes stated the importance of stable domestic prices and a stable currency for a strong economy, while arguing against the gold standard, which at that time was used for the US dollar and many other currencies. Britain abandoned the gold standard in 1931-after it had re-established it in 1925-and the United States abandoned the gold standard in 1933.A Tract on Monetary Reform is essential reading for anyone interested in Keynes' theories and for students of economics or economic history.

In THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE, Keynes presents a brief historical review of laissez-faire economic policy. Though he agrees in principle that the marketplace should be free of government interference, he suggests that government can play a constructive role in protecting individuals from the worst harms of capitalism's cycles, especially as concerns unemployment. When the Great Depression struck a few years later, this work seemed very prescient. Keynes first earned widespread prominence immediately following World War I, when he published THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE. This book gained a good deal of notoriety because of its withering portraits of both French premier Georges Clemenceau and US president Woodrow Wilson. Keynes criticized the Allied victors for signing a treaty that would have ruinous consequences for Europe, if not modified as he suggested. Unfortunately, few leaders appreciated Keynes's criticisms, and he saw his worst fears realized in the rise of Hitler and the devastation of World War II. Keynes's brilliant mind and lucid writing are evident on every page. Both of these works are well worth reading for his profound knowledge of economics.

Comment payer la guerre (1940) est considéré comme la quatrième oeuvre maîtresse de John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). Jusque-là inédit en français, ce petit livre est une large anticipation de la théorie et de la politique économique de cette deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. Y apparaissent comme des perspectives nouvelles, l'analyse de l'inflation, celle du rôle particulier qu'y joue l'épargne, la recherche des fondements précis et quantitatifs de la politique économique, une réflexion omniprésente sur les rapports qu'entretiennent les décisions macro-économiques de l'état et la contrainte d'une justice sociale toujours placée au premier rang des préoccupations, les prémices d'un raisonnement en termes de Comptabilité nationale.

2012 Reprint of 1932 American Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The essays in this volume show Keynes's attempts to influence the course of events by public persuasion over the period of 1919-40.In the light of subsequent history, 'Essays in Persuasion' is a remarkably prophetic volume covering a wide range of issues in political economy. In articles on the Versailles Treaty, John Maynard Keynes foresaw all too clearly that excessive Allied demands for reparations and indemnities would lead to the economic collapse of Germany. In Keynes's essays on inflation and deflation, the reader can find ideas that were to become the foundations of his most renowned treatise, 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money' (1936). With startling accuracy Keynes forecast the economic fluctuations that were to beset the economies of Europe and the United States and even proposed measures which, if heeded at the time, might have warded off an era of world-wide depression. His views on Soviet Russia, on the decline of laissez-faire, and the possibilities of economic growth are as relevant today as when Keynes originally set them forth.