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"Making war to war" or How to Train Elites about European Economic Ideas: Keynes's Articles Published in L'Europe Nouvelle during the Interwar Period

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  • Annie L. Cot

    (Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
    Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

  • Muriel Dal Pont Legrand

    (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France)

Abstract

The first issue of L'Europe Nouvelle was published in 1918, as a weekly journal directed by Louise Weiss (1893-1983), a French journalist with a university degree in literature, who would later become a feminist activist and a member of the European Parliament. L'Europe Nouvelle carried the urgent need for a Peace project after World War I and the vital necessity to set up and strengthen the new League of Nations shared in many intellectual, political, and economic circles. The contributors to L'Europe Nouvelle ranged from politicians to diplomats, writers, artists, and, of course, economists. Louise Weiss's stated aim was to train the future elites to achieve a unified Europe as the only solution to a lasting peace. To this end, she commissioned a diverse array of authors from various disciplines and negotiated an exclusive publishing agreement with John Maynard Keynes for the French edition of seven articles, between 1927 and 1929. The paper examines these contributions.

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  • Annie L. Cot & Muriel Dal Pont Legrand, 2025. ""Making war to war" or How to Train Elites about European Economic Ideas: Keynes's Articles Published in L'Europe Nouvelle during the Interwar Period," GREDEG Working Papers 2025-02, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.
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    1. Lars Jonung, 2022. "Why was Keynes not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after writing The Economic Consequences of the Peace?," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 124(2), pages 396-419, April.
    2. Robert W. Dimand, 2019. "One Hundred Years Ago: John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace," History of Economics Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 73(1), pages 1-13, May.
    3. Muriel Dal Pont Legrand & Katia Caldari, 2024. "Economic Expertise at War. A Brief History of the Institutionalization of French Economic Expertise (1936-1946)," GREDEG Working Papers 2024-15, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France, revised Sep 2024.
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    Keywords

    John M. Keynes; Louise Weiss; Debts; Reparations; L'Europe Nouvelle; World War I; The Economic Consequences of the Peace;
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    JEL classification:

    • B10 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - General
    • B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology

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