Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General introduction
- Editorial note
- PART I
- 1 FINANCE AND INVESTMENT 1922–1923
- 2 POPULATION, PROTECTION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- 3 MONETARY REFORM AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- 4 THE RETURN TO GOLD AND FOREIGN LENDING
- 5 THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MR CHURCHILL
- PART II
- Appendix
- List of Documents Reproduced
- Index
2 - POPULATION, PROTECTION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
from PART I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General introduction
- Editorial note
- PART I
- 1 FINANCE AND INVESTMENT 1922–1923
- 2 POPULATION, PROTECTION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- 3 MONETARY REFORM AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- 4 THE RETURN TO GOLD AND FOREIGN LENDING
- 5 THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MR CHURCHILL
- PART II
- Appendix
- List of Documents Reproduced
- Index
Summary
On 18 September 1923 at the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Liverpool, Sir William Beveridge, the president of the Economics Section, delivered an address entitled ‘Population and Unemployment’ In the course of his remarks he addressed himself to Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace (JMK, vol. II), especially his remarks on the terms of trade between bread and manufactures (pp. 5–6, 13–15, 161). On 22 September, under the title ‘Malthusian Moonshine’ the editor of The New Statesman welcomed Sir William's remarks. Keynes replied in the next issue.
To the Editor of The New Statesman, 25 September 1923
Sir,
Since you refer to a criticism by Sir W. Beveridge, in his address to the British Association on ‘Population and Unemployment’, of a statement made by me some time ago relating to the course of the relative values of agricultural produce and manufactured articles between 1900 and 1910, may I say that Sir William's figures do not confute my statement, because they give little or no weight to the prices of manufactured articles? My rejoinder furnishing the evidence on which I was relying will be published in The Economic Journal for December next, together with the full text of Sir William's address.
Yours, etc.,
J. M. Keynes
Keynes turned to another aspect of Beveridge's address in the columns of The Nation.
From The Nation and Athenaeum, 6 October 1923
POPULATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Sir William Beveridge's interesting address, under this title, before the British Association has revived discussion on a matter which, whatever way it touches our hopes or our prejudices, must surely trouble the thoughts of anyone who concerns himself with political or social purpose.
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- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes , pp. 119 - 157Publisher: Royal Economic SocietyPrint publication year: 1978