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 sub stance to the intellectual linkages between the Cambridge don and economist s working in international economic agencies during the inter-war period. K eynes was keenly sought after as a policy adviser; as the notes to these le ctures indicate, he provided his audience with theoretical insights into th e pressing issues of the day-reparations and the transfer problem, the econ omic foundations of the Dawes and Young Plans, and proposals for an interna tional bank.