In particular he criticised the justification of Britain's return to the gold standard in at pre-war valuation by reference to the wholesale price index. They would not have a reply to these response because they have not seen them before nor have been trained how to answer. Full sex does not necessarily have to be involved here is that matter. Keynes's analysis on the predicted damaging effects of the treaty appeared in the highly influential book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace , published in As you can see, these responses would throw a monkey wrench into these ideological sales pitches.