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What started Keynes on the road to the Keynesian Revolution was the incomplete British recovery from the depression of 1920 to 1922.

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman (2003)

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