Activities 1922-1929: The Return to Gold and Industrial Policy

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This volume brings together Keynes's attempts to influence public opinion and policy concerning primarily British affairs between 1922 and 1929. During this period, his major concerns were Britain's attempt to return to the gold standard and its consequences, industrial policy (especially in the cotton textile industry) and unemployment policy, although he became briefly involved in many other subjects. Most of the volume consists of Keynes's journalism for the period, but it also contains his previously unpublished evidence to official committees, anonymous contributions to The Nation and Athenaeum and related correspondence.  Read more... Part I: 1. Finance and investment, 1922-1923 2. Population, protection and unemployment 3. Monetary reform and unemployment 4. The return to gold and foreign lending 5. The economic consequences of Mr Churchill Part II: 6. 1926: further economic consequences, the franc and the rupee 7. Industrial reorganisation: cotton 8. Industry, economy, currency and trade 9. Can Lloyd George do it?