Structural crisis and institutional change in modern capitalism : French capitalism in transition / Bruno Amable.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amable, Bruno, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism.

Capitalism.

Economic conditions.

France--Economic conditions--20th century.

France.

France--Economic conditions--21st century.

Capitalism--France--20th century.

Capitalism--France--21st century.

Socialism--France--20th century.

Socialism--France--21st century.

France--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

France--Politics and government--21st century.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017].

Summary:

This book analyses the evolution of the French model of capitalism in relation to the instability of socio-political compromises. In the 2010s, France was in a situation of systemic crisis, namely, the impossibility for political leadership to find a strategy of institutional change, or more generally a model of capitalism, that could gather sufficient social and political support. This book analyses the various attempts at reforming the French model since the 1980s, when the left tried briefly to orient the French political economy in a social-democratic/socialist direction before changing course and opting for a more orthodox macroeconomic and structural policy direction. The attempts of governments of the right to implement a radically neo-liberal structural policy also failed in the face of a significant social opposition. The enduring French systemic crisis is the expression of contradictions between the economic policies implemented by the successive left and right governments, and the existence of a dominant, social bloc, that is, a coalition of social groups that would politically support the dominant political strategy. 0Since 1978, both the right and the left have failed to find a solution to the contradictions between the policies they implemented and the expectations of their respective social bases, which are themselves inhabited by tensions and contradictions that evolve with the structural reforms that gradually transformed French capitalism.

Contents:

1 The Systemic Crises of French Capitalism 11

2 Opposition Between Two Economic and Social Models 56

3 The Search foe a New Model 96

4 The Unsolved Contradictions of the Modernists 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index.

ISBN:

9780198787815

0198787812

OCLC:

985323188