Confusion RE before after World War II Changed the second of these two sentences in the section titled The Keynesian ascendancy 1941 1979 The 1950s and 60s where Keynes s influence was at its peak has been described as appearing in retrospect to have been a golden age 11 In contrast to the decades after WWII the industrial world and much of the developing world enjoyed high growth low unemployment and an exceptionally low frequency of economic crises Replaced the word after with before since that s obviosuly what was intended