2 options
The French economy / Frances M.B. Lynch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynch, Frances M. B., 1955- author.
- Series:
- World economies.
- World economies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--Economic conditions.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2021.
- Summary:
- Despite being invariably misunderstood by anglophones and often derided in the English-language financial press, the French economy is one of the world's major economies. For many years characterized by a distinctive economic model in which the French state intervened to correct or prevent market failures, as France has embraced the global market, its economy has increasingly converged with the western norm, but it remains different from its neighbours, particularly Germany and the UK, in a number of important respects.<br><br>This general economic history of modern France - the first in the English language for nearly twenty years - provides an authoritative analysis of the workings of the modern French economy since its postwar reforms through to the present day. The book explores the monetary and fiscal policies of successive governments and the country's economic performance through a variety of indicators. In particular the book considers the attempts by the state to correct the regional imbalances associated with the contraction of agriculture and the decline of historically important industries as well as mitigating the dominance of Paris. The parts played by demographic change, migration, inequality, and the European project in French economic development are also investigated alongside the strength and competitiveness of key industries like finance, energy and transport.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introducing the French Economy
- Historiographical overview
- Not backward but different
- The eve of the First World War
- The interwar period
- The changing French economic model
- The legacy of occupation and resistance, 1940-44
- The postwar reforms, 1944-58
- The Gaullist model of economic policy-making, 1958-74
- The economic model in transition 1974-83
- The liberal model of redistribution, 1983-2018
- Conclusion
- Growth and structural change in the French economy, 1945-2018
- Overview of the performance of the French economy, 1945-2018
- The economy under the Fourth Republic, 1945-58
- The economy under Gaullism, 1958-74
- From recession to U-turn, 1974-83
- Towards the service economy, 1983-2018
- Regional inequality
- The Administrative structure
- Regional planning after 1945
- Socialist regional reforms from 1982
- Socialist regional reforms, 2014
- Interpersonal inequality
- Income inequality
- Wealth inequality
- The structure of taxation
- Labour market
- Other forms of inequality
- The French economy and European integration
- The European Coal and Steel Community
- The European Economic Community
- The single market
- The single currency
- The Franc Zone
- Appendix
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Jan 2024).
- ISBN:
- 1-78821-166-9
- OCLC:
- 1265456189
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.