”Keynes as a Planner and Negotiator” [2018] Toshiaki Hirai
Rosselli, A., Naldi, N. and Sanfilippo, E. eds. Money, Finance and Crises in Economic History, Routledge, 2019. pp. 158-172 <BOOK-PART-META> <LBL> Chapter 12 </LBL> <TITLE> Keynes as a planner and negotiator </TITLE></BOOK-PART-META> <OPENER><CONTRIBS> <AU><GNM> Toshiaki </GNM> <SNM> Hirai (Sophia University) </SNM></AU></CONTRIBS> </OPENER> <BODY> In July 1940 , the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Consultative Council was set up to help and advise the Chancellor on special problems arising from war conditions. Keynes accepted Council membership and was soon to find himself engaged in a range of important assignments. I have already dealt elsewhere (see, for example, Hirai, 2011 , 2013 ) with Keynes’s activities in the 1940s, as a planner and negotiator in the international spheres in relation to the Relief and Reconstruction problem and...