john maynard made appearance and he was back for potsdam. the first document i saw doing research for this project wz in the university of birmingham archives. the very first document was in 1943 foreign office assessment of what had gone wrong at the paris peace conference. they were doing that in 1943 in anticipation of holding the conference just like this. i was fascinated by that. so what did they think the mistakes were? well, here's where the disagreement starts. they all agreed this process had been done very badly. nobody exactly agreed on what had been done badly. one, that they more or less agreed to was that the cycle of reparations was a disastrous idea. setting a figure germany could not pay, insisting that germany pay it and insisting germany pay those reparations in cash had been a badly destabilizing process. the reason why john maynard left paris in 1919 and wrote the book that made him an international, a book that is still in print in i think 75 languages. there were others who argue that shifting borders had been a mista

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let me ask what john maynard keynes would do. we talk of the neo-rockefeller age for republicans.eynes do, given the popular backlash, -- the populist backlash, given the test for austerity. robert: austerity has failed to generate a good and robust recovery from the crash of 2008. otherity policies -- the set of policies, which are the only thing left once fiscal austerity became -- were monetary policies. quantitative easing. tom: has the trump campaign called you for a position? robert: i have not had a telephone call. tom: you are waiting by the phone. robert: by the way, there are lots of things about trump i do not like. with the economic team of trump. how can they have stimulus, robert skidelsky stimulus, within the conservative mill you lieu ofconservative mi america? robert: well he has got a mandate. he is not going to be chained up like congress in the way that some people are expecting. he has the mandate. and a key plan of his program was stimulus. tom: we will come back. robert skidelsky with us. formost controversial essay conservatives and liberals alike. we will

is my pleasure to work closely with the chair john maynard and his circle of leadership including charles and james and ann. tonight's program in fact, was put together by james asked me to say nothing about him laugh laugh so for those who don't know he is a dynamo he will introduce uh distinguished moderator and panelists and i will also like to thank them for their generous giving of themselves this evening things for coming. [applause]me is st >> en el the cubs game is starting so i will get you out of here soon as we can but phillip is always somebody that i go to when i have a strange idea and the adm that i have after watching might television on my phone one in amazement and horror as with an colter and others i was supposed to be working but was part of that fact based community hungry for a fact. one fact. i would cry at the end of the day. so i do know people that they are up here today. items anything about them because they are fixtures of the culture and political scene and have been for many years. and david maraniss with the eyewash in 10 post or ay whole variety of associ

my close work with the chair, john maynard and his circle of leadership including charles defonty, ann heller and james atlas. tonight's program was in fact architected by james, who asked me to say nothing about him for those who don't know, he's a dynamo in the world of publishing and biographer. introducing the distinguished moderator and panelists and i'd like to thank them for their generous giving of themselves this evening. thank you all for coming. please welcome jim atlas. [applause] this is about a foot here. i know the cubs game is starti starting and many are cubs fans as am i. we'll get you out when i go. and when i go to, i have a strange idea i want to invite 400 people to share with me and the idea i had after days of watching tv on my tv and phone and i watched in horror wolf blitzer and ann coulter and one named chris, and i became as a member of the fact-based community hungry for a fact, one fact, a fact. i ask the kingdom for a fact, i'd cry at the end. day. i do know people who know facts and they're up here today. and there are only four. i know five. but-- and i

but you can read john maynard keen, the british economist, who was unbelievably critical of what was going on. he left the paris peace conference and wrote one of the most famous books of the time period. my favorite is william bullitt. the first american ambassador to the soviet union. he left the peace conference early because of the reasons you are articulating. he wrote -- i'm going to the south of france to watch the world go to hell. there were plenty of people who could see what was coming. there was no way to envision who could do this. thank you, everybody. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, tonight at 8:00 eastern on lectures and history. >> the only difference between jewsokia mob hunting down and central europe and an american mom burning black men at the stake in mississippi is that one is actually encouraged by its national government and want is tolera

it's my pleasure to work closely with the seminar's chair, john maynard, and with his circle of leadership including charles defonte, ann heller and james atlas. tonight's program was, in fact, architected by james who asked me to say nothing about him. [laughter] though for those who don't know, he is a dynamo in the world of publishing and biography. jim will introduce tonight's distinguished moderator and panelists, and i would also like to thank them for their generous giving of themselves this evening. thank you all for coming. please, welcome jim atlas. [applause] >> have to lower this about a foot here. i know the cubs game is starting in a while, so -- [laughter] and some of these people are from chicago, as am i, so we'll get you out of here as soon as we can. but phillip was, is always someone i go to when i have a strange idea that i want to invite 400 people to so they can share it with me. and the idea i had after days of watching my tv on my phone, slacking-i jawed in amazement and horror as i watched wolf blitzer and ann coulter and a bunch of people named chris all yammerin

trump maying up, how be more like john maynard keynes than republicans like to admit.rg markets. president-elect trump says he wants to repair bridges, roads and networks. is he advocating for stimulus? i mccain'sng with biographer and said no one would adopt the mantle of being a keynesian. are we seeing a 10 z stimulus shaping up? guest: i think we will get one and i don't think we will call it that. every tax bill or revenue bill has to get what is called a score. the budget office looks at it and says this is how much it is going to cost. so it is odd if they come back and scored your appropriations bill and says you have not offset it. of the things we have been seeing with the republicans they have been pushing for something they called dynamic scoring. instead of using the static gdp forecast, they take the model, get a one-year result, feed the new gdp back into the model and get next year's result. is itt eventually does makes tax cuts look cheaper. if you believe tax cuts create growth and the model shows that, your tax cuts are cheaper because you increase r