| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
| Year: | 1922 |
| Number: | 17 - 1 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | John Maynard Keynes |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1883 |
| Year, Death: | 1946 |
| Profession: | Economist, journalist and financier. |
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| City: | Cambridge |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Motivation: | Keynes was one of the most distinctive British economists. During World War I he served as a consultant in the British Treasury. Keynes accompanied Lloyd George to the Paris Peace Conference as an economic advisor. He opposed the Allied reparations policy, and he advocated a more liberal attitude towards the size and amount of the economic sanctions imposed on Germany. He criticized the Versailles Treaty in "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" (1919/1920). |
| Nominator 1: |
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| Name: | G von Mayr |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professor of Political Science |
| University: | University of Munich |
| City: | Munich |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominator 2: |
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| Name: | Walther Lotz |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professor of Political Science |
| City: | Munich |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Comments: | Keynes became so distressed by the harsh and unrealistic reparations policy that his health deteriorated and he resigned from his from his position as economic advisor to the Versailles Peace Congress. |
