# America — The Economic Consequences of the Peace character guide

> America in The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** herself

**First appearance:** 0001-the-economic-consequences-of-the-peace

## Snapshot

The distant New World power whose food supplies and financial strength Europe depends on, yet whose emissaries often misread the continent's fragility.

## Who they are

America appears in Keynes's argument as both Europe's lifeline and its blind spot, the source of food on which a shattered continent depends and a nation that, like England, could remain unconscious of the rumblings abroad. Her representatives at Paris were naturally a little ignorant of the true point at issue, and where American interests were not seriously involved their criticism grew slack. That combination of indispensable resources and imperfect understanding makes America central to why the Peace's economic provisions went through as they did.

## In the story

### [I: Introductory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_economic_consequences_of_the_peace_se/chapters/i-introductory)

America is mentioned as also being somewhat unconscious of Europe's plight, though less so than England.

### [Europe Before the War](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_economic_consequences_of_the_peace_se/chapters/ii-europe-before-the-war)

Key supplier of cheap food to Europe, but its domestic demand was approaching production, threatening Europe's food security.

### [IV: The Relation of the Old World to the New](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_economic_consequences_of_the_peace_se/chapters/iv-the-relation-of-the-old-world-to-the-new)

Represented as the New World providing cheap food and resources; its domestic consumption is approaching production, threatening Europe's supply.

### [The Conference and the Terms of the Treaty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_economic_consequences_of_the_peace_se/chapters/ii-the-conference-and-the-terms-of-the-treaty)

Expected to show magnanimity; criticized for having no constructive proposals for Europe's economic recovery.

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