KEYNES, John Maynard.

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A Revision of the Treaty. First edition, first impression, of Keynes's second work on German reparations and the debt-riddled economy of post-First World War Europe, developing arguments on the Treaty of Versailles which remain widely held to this day. The Revision is a supplement and sequel to 1919's immensely popular The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Revision develops the argument that the Versailles reparations threatened European peace and prosperity and should be drastically reduced. "The violence of the controversy aroused by these two books is now difficult to appreciate. Even while they were being written many of his prophecies came true and, in the light of the subsequent history, the foresight of his conclusions would be uncanny did they not proceed so inevitably from his premises" (PMM).

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