The blind decades : employment and growth in France, 1974-2014 / Philippe Askenazy ; translated from the French by Susan Emanuel ; foreword by Richard Freeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Askenazy, Philippe, author.

Contributor:

Emanuel, Susan, translator.

Standardized Title:

Décennies aveugles. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

France--Economic conditions--1945-.

France.

Economic conditions.

France--Economic policy--1945-.

Economic policy.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

xvi, 260 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

Summary:

"France is often described as one of the last Western economies that has not been able to reform itself in the face of globalization. Yet its economy has not fallen by the wayside, and it has even resisted the great recession that began in 2008. By interlinking historical, economic, and political factors, and by comparing France with other nations, this book offers keys for understanding the puzzle found in the development of France. Dynamics at work in the French case sidestep the usual injunctions--less state control or less rigidity in the labor market--and instead stress the importance of the construction of a long-term industrial strategy"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Four decades of an industrial revolution

1974-1981 : the creation of mass unemployment

1981-1986 : the socialists try

1986-1993 : from hard to soft economic liberalism

1993-2002 : "new" effective policies?

2002-2007 : the decomposition of French economic policy

2007-2013 : from optimism to the Great Recession

The state of France : four decades after the first oil crisis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520277991

0520277996

OCLC:

880541525