MANTOUX (Étienne).
The Carthaginian Peace. Or, The Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes.
Mantoux’s posthumously published critique of Keynes’s belief that the severity of the Versailles treaty had been responsible for Germany’s collapse, and therefore responsible for the Second World War. Keynes and Mantoux were both dead before the book was published, Keynes in Spring 1946, and Mantoux in some of the last fighting of the war.
Mantoux was a firm supporter of economic liberalism. ‘Hayek admired him, in particular for his vigorous critique of Keynes, and at the time the Mont Pelerin Society was founded in 1947, Hayek declared that Mantoux should have played a key role in it had he still been alive’ (Reinhoudt & Audier, The Walter Lippmann Colloquium; the Birth of Neo-Liberalism, p. 64).
