The Economic Consequences of The Peace by KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946)

London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 279; [1], blank. Original blue buckram titled and trimmed in gilt to spine, ruled in blind to covers. Clean within, edges of text block toned, bookplate to pastedown (offset to half-title), bumped at crown, gilt bright, a couple of small marks to the binding. A very good copy indeed. John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB; British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. Economists consider him one of the main founders of modern theoretical macroeconomics, and his popular expression "In the very long run, we are all dead" is still quoted.