The Economic Consequences of the Peace — Studio AI narration
“There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.”
About this work
"The Economic Consequences of the Peace" (1919) is the book that made Keynes world-famous. Having resigned in protest from the British delegation at Versailles, he denounced the reparations forced on a defeated Germany as a "Carthaginian peace" that would wreck the European economy and sow the seeds of ruin. His pen portraits of Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George are merciless; his economic forecast proved tragically prescient.
Read in the restored voice of the man who walked out of the conference and wrote it in a white heat, the polemic regains its original heat and bite — the sound of an insider naming the disaster while the ink on the treaty was barely dry.
Who was John Maynard Keynes?
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was the most consequential economist of the twentieth century, the architect of the macroeconomic thinking that reshaped how governments respond to slumps and unemployment. A Cambridge man, Treasury official, philosopher of probability and member of the Bloomsbury circle, he moved with equal ease through economics, art, and statecraft.
He first reached a mass audience not with theory but with prophecy — a furious, brilliantly written warning that the peace imposed on Germany in 1919 would breed the next catastrophe. When the BBC broadcast him in 1939, his actual voice was captured: crisp, donnish, unhurried, unmistakably that of an Edwardian Cambridge intellectual.
About the voice
This edition uses a studio AI voice, not a restoration of John Maynard Keynes's recording. It is a new AI performance, not a recording of the author reading this work.
Provenance: Studio AI voice. We label every voice by the source used for this edition — restored, studio AI, or disputed.
Questions
Is this John Maynard Keynes’s recorded voice?
This edition uses a studio AI voice, not a restoration of John Maynard Keynes's recording. It is a new AI performance, not a recording of the author reading this work.
Is this John Maynard Keynes’s recorded voice?
This edition uses a studio AI voice, not a restoration of John Maynard Keynes's recording. It is a new AI performance, not a recording of the author reading this work.
Is "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" in the public domain?
Yes. First published in 1919, the work is in the public domain in the United States.
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