The Centenary Conference on Keynes’s
Economic Consequences of the Peace
King’s College, Cambridge, September 9-10, 2019
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Day 1 Monday 9th September
| 08.15-8.45 | Registration, Chetwynd Room, King’s College |
| 08:45-9:00 | Welcoming remarks, Prof. David Howarth (Cambridge) Keynes Lecture Theatre, King’s College |
| 9:00-11:00 |
Session 1: Keynes’ Worldview and Method |
| Chair: Lord Skidelsky | |
| Between Cambridge, Paris and Amsterdam, Harold James (Princeton) and Andrew Koger (Princeton) | |
| Genesis of Keynes’s Book, Michael Cox (London School of Economics) | |
| Keynes’ View on Elites and Carthaginian Peace, Elise S. Brezis (Bar-IIan University) | |
| State Formation in Central-Eastern Europe after 1918: Some Reflections on Keynes, Max-Stephan Schulze (London School of Economics) and Nikolaus Wolf (HU Berlin) | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break - Coffee and Tea - Chetwynd Room |
| 11:15-13:15 |
Session 2: Interwar Aftermath |
| Chair: Patricia Clavin (Oxford) | |
| Setting the Gold Standard: Exchange Rates, Protection and Inflation in Interwar Britain, Jason Lennard (NIESR), Jagjit S. Chadha (NIESR), Solomos Solomou (Cambridge) and Ryland Thomas (Bank of England) | |
| Keynes, Currency Speculation and The Economic Consequences of the Peace, David Chambers (Cambridge) and Olivier Accominotti (London School of Economics) and James Ashley Morrison (London School of Economics) | |
| The One Case where The Economic Consequences of the Peace Mattered: The Reshaping of Economic Mindset in Early Republican Turkey, Eyup Ozveren (Middle East Technical University) | |
| 13:15-14:30 | Lunch, King’s Hall |
| 14:30-16:00 |
Session 3: Impact on Multilateralism |
| Chair: Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge) | |
| Keynes and International Trade Politics After the First World War, Madeleine Dungy (Harvard) | |
| Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary? Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization, Catherine R. Schenk (Oxford), Michael Bordo (Rutgers) | |
| Gold, International Monetary Cooperation, and the Tripartite Agreement of 1936, Max Harris (Sperling Economic Strategies) | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Break - Coffee and Tea - Chetwynd Room – followed by transition to Panel venue, in the McCrum Lecture Theatre (entrance is off Benet Street, through a passage on the right of the Eagle pub) |
| 16.30-18.45 | Panel: Contemporary Relevance of the Economic Consequences (McCrum Lecture Theatre) Chair: Adam Tooze (Columbia) |
| Edward Carr (The Economist) Stanley Fischer (Senior Adviser, BlackRock) Cecilia Skingsley (Sveriges Riksbank) Geoff Mann (Simon Fraser University) |
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| 19:00 | Drinks, Chetwynd Room, followed by Dinner, King’s Hall (by invitation only) |
Day 2 Tuesday 10th September
| 9:00-10:45 |
Session 4: Burden of Reparations |
| Chair: Meredith Crowley (Cambridge) | |
| Optimal Default and War Reparations, Simon Hinrichsen (London School of Economics) | |
| Funding the Great War and the Beginning of the End for British Hegemony, Martin Ellison (Oxford), Thomas J. Sargent (New York University), and Andrew Scott (London Business School) | |
| Does Austerity Cause Polarization? Thomas Sattler (University of Geneva), Evelyne Hübscher (Central European University); Markus Wagner (University of Vienna) | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Break - Coffee and Tea - Chetwynd Room |
| 11:15-13:15 |
Session 5: Contemporary Perspectives |
| Chair: Catherine Schenk (Oxford) | |
| Revisionism as Intellectual and Political Vindication or The French Receptions of the Economic Consequences of the Peace in the Two World Wars (1919–46), Guilherme Sampaio (Institut d'études avancées - Université de Cergy-Pontoise) | |
| “Too Bad to Be True”: Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher and Knut Wicksell on John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic Consequences of the Peace and the German Reparations, 1919-1924, Benny Carlson (Lund University), Lars Jonung (Lund University) | |
| Keynes’s Economic Consequences (1919): The Book and its Critics, Peter Clarke (Cambridge) | |
| Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, and Popular Perceptions of the First World War, Jonathan Boff (Birmingham) | |
| 13:15 -14.00 | Lunch and adjourn, King’s Hall |
Please be aware that a photographer and filming team from or commissioned by the University of Cambridge will be taking photographs and filming the Economics Consequences of the Peace Centenary Conference, 9th-10th September, 2019. The photographs and films may be published, transmitted or broadcast in official University publications and in University publicity materials, including its websites and in social media.
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