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Quotation from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
“What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914”
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter II: Europe Before the War (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776)
Keynes begins his famous picture of the interconnected world economy before the First World War, in which a Londoner could order the goods of the whole earth by telephone.
Citation: "What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914" — John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter II: Europe Before the War (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776). (id keynes-the-economic-consequences-of-the-peace-q2)
Portrait: Keynes 1933, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
