Adolf A. Berle (1895–1971) was one of the first authors to combine legal and economic analysis, and his work stands as a founding pillar of thought in modern corporate governance. Like Keynes, Berle was at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, but subsequently resigned from his diplomatic job dissatisfied with the Versailles Treaty terms. In his book with Gardiner C. Means, "The Modern Corporation and Private Property" (1932), he detailed the evolution in the contemporary economy of big business, and argued that those who controlled big firms should be better held to account.