School Notes

Date posted:   Dec 11, 2019

Kirshner NYT op-ed highlights insights of John Maynard Keynes on European identity

Photo of John Maynard Keynes, with his wife, Lydia Lopokova, in the 1920s.

In his op-ed in this week's New York Times, Prof. Jonathan Kirshner argues that economist John Maynard Keynes rightly predicted the chaos that would ensure if the Allies imposed draconian terms on the German surrender in the First World War, but that Keynes' bigger point about the damage it would do European identity remains misunderstood.