“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

Annie L. Cot () and Muriel Dal Pont Legrand ()
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Annie L. Cot: University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne
Muriel Dal Pont Legrand: Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS GREDEG

A chapter in Waving the Swedish Flag in Economics, 2025, pp 229-254 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The first issue of L’Europe Nouvelle was published in 1918, as a weekly journal was 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 need 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 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 papers, between 1927 and 1929. The paper examines these contributions.

Keywords: John Maynard Keynes; Louise Weiss; Reparations; L'Europe Nouvelle; World War I; The Economic Consequences of the Peace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-71511-2_13

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