Editors’ Preface to the special issue “Reconstruction in Europe, 100 years later”

Reviewing views once expressed by J. M. Keynes, and adopting some of their great brevity, persuasive prose, and occasionally cryptic logic, this essay compares the

We publish here four letters between Luigi Einaudi and John M. Keynes of the period March-April 1922 and related to Einaudi’s contribution to the Manchester

This introduction explains why and how Keynes became associated with the project for publishing Reconstruction Supplements that would circulate throughout Europe in 1922-3. The idea came from

In 1922-3 J.M. Keynes was general editor of a series of 12 publications on The Reconstruction in Europe (Manchester Guardian Commercial Supplements). Its contents are little known

The article compares the challenges faced by Europe in reconstructing after World War I and the new ones on similar issues encountered in 2017, after

Far from exclusively challenging Europe’s present and future, the current crises are also changing its relations to the past. The analogy with the 1930s has

Keynes died before the initiation of measures for economic and political union in Europe. However, he did have very clear views about the limitations on

The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) institutions are consistent with a New Consensus that emerged in the 1980s, limiting the role for macroeconomic policy to

The paper analyzes the main structural features and the different responses to the recent ‘great recession’ in the United States and the European Union. In