Foreign investment, reparations and the proposal for an international bank: Notes on the lectures of J. M. Keynes in Geneva, July 1929

Keynes’s lectures to the Geneva School of International Studies provide substance to the intellectual linkages between the Cambridge don and economists working in international economic agencies during the inter-war period. Keynes was keenly sought after as a policy adviser; as the notes to these lectures indicate, he provided his audience with theoretical insights into the pressing issues of the day-reparations and the transfer problem, the economic foundations of the Dawes and Young Plans, and proposals for an international bank.