Restructuring The French Economy

Author : William James Adams
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815719760

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Restructuring the French Economy by William James Adams Pdf

At the end of World War II, experts on both sides of the Atlantic believed that France was doomed to economic stagnation. French culture and institutions, they argued, inhibited the changes in economic structure that sustained growth would require. But in spite of these predictions and the occasional volatility of the world economy, the French economy grew rapidly. Only the Japanese, of the major economies, has grown faster, and by 1975 the French standard of living matched that of West Germany. Restructuring the French Economy looks at the four decades of the structural changes that fostered growth and explores explanations of why such changes occurred. Drawing on many and diverse primary materials, including government statistics, judicial decisions, and professional memoirs, Adams examines three different explanations of France's postwar economic success. The first downplays the extent of structural change during the surge of growth. The second emphasizes the importance of government policies to compensate for inadequate private initiative. The third suggests that European economic integration and French decolonization created enough market competition to push the private sector into its own restructuring. Adams stresses that if government initiatives worked well, they did so in an environment of strong market competition; if competition seemed to work wonders, it occurred only as a result of government actions. He also devotes considerable attention to the implications of his findings for U.S. policy concerning European protectionism and the health and growth of American industries.

Author : Bob Hancké
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019925205X

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Large Firms and Institutional Change by Bob Hancké Pdf

Analyses the revival of the French economy at the end of the 20th century and shows how large firms took the lead in that process, becoming the drivers of economic adjustment.

Author : Philip H. Gordon,Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815798651

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The French Challenge by Philip H. Gordon,Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia Pdf

In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name José Bové was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France. A few months later Bové built on his fame by smuggling huge chunks of Roquefort cheese into Seattle, where he was among the leaders of the antiglobalization protests against the World Trade Organization summit. Bové's crusade against globalization helped provoke a debate both within France and beyond about the pros and cons of a world in which financial, commercial, human, cultural, and technology flows move faster and more extensively than ever before. As the French struggle to preserve the country's identity, heritage, and distinctiveness, they are nonetheless adapting to a new economy and an interdependent world. This book deals with France's effort to adapt to globalization and its consequences for France's economy, cultural identity, domestic politics, and foreign relations. The authors begin by analyzing the structural transformation of the French economy, driven first by liberalization within the European Union and more recently by globalization. By examining a wide variety of possible measures of globalization and liberalization, the authors conclude that the French economy's adaptation has been far reaching and largely successful, even if French leaders prefer to downplay the extent of these changes in response to political pressures and public opinion. They call this adaptation "globalization by stealth." The authors also examine the relationship between trade, culture, and identity and explain why globalization has rendered the three inseparable. They show how globalization is contributing to the restructuring of the traditional French political spectrum and blurring the traditional differences between left and right. Finally, they explore France's effort to tame globalization—maîtriser la mondialisation—and the possible consequences and lessons of the French s

Author : Peter Karl Kresl,Sylvain Gallais
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782543805

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France Encounters Globalization by Peter Karl Kresl,Sylvain Gallais Pdf

'There is much of interest here, and the authors provide background information and digressions that make their analysis more accessible to noneconomists.' - M. Veseth, Choice This book is the first in English to comprehensively examine the French economy and how it is adjusting to the exigencies of an increasingly globalized environment. The opening of the French market to international competition has forced recent governments to realize that the old closed model in which France had considerable autonomy over policy is no longer valid. French solutions to domestic problems had to be given up in the early 1980s. Changes in technology have had dramatic impacts on the comparative advantage of French producers and the necessary restructuring has been far from easy. These twin aspects of globalization have also altered the situation of France's various regions and urban economies and the highly centralized structure has come under pressure. This has forced a change in the thinking of French public and private sector leaders. The role of the state, the degree of intervention, the extent of control over the domestic economy, and the need to be accommodating to market forces have all been subject to public debate and to fundamental reconsideration. While this is a book on the French economy, Kresl and Gallais deal with issues, challenges, and processes of change and adaptation that are facing all of Europe, and indeed all industrialized economies.

Author : Bob Hancké
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Corporate reorganizations
ISBN : CORNELL:31924097696409

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Revisiting the French Model by Bob Hancké Pdf

Author : Frances M. B. Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : France
ISBN : 1788211669

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The French Economy by Frances M. B. Lynch Pdf

Author : W. Rand Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Economic stabilization
ISBN : UCSD:31822027859545

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The Left's Dirty Job by W. Rand Smith Pdf

As today's headlines make clear, corporate "downsizing" is only one aspect of a global transformation challenging firms and governments alike. W. Rand Smith examines a central question in this process: what choices exist for governments of industrialized democracies as they seek to help older, core industries adjust to changes in demand, technology, and new sources of competition? This question is especially important for governments dominated by leftist political parties, which are torn between their commitment to social solidarity and the capitalist imperative of efficiency. The Left's Dirty Job compares recent socialist governments in France and Spain, which because of their longevity and initial reform aspirations, provide a key test of whether a distinctive leftist approach to industrial restructuring is possible. This study argues that, in fact, both governments' policies converged with those other European governments in "market-adapting" measures that eliminated thousands of jobs while providing income support for displaced workers. Despite broadly similar policies, however, the restructuring process differed in three important aspects: trajectory, dynamics, and impact. Smith traces this pattern of convergence and difference, and focuses on the internal politics of the governing coalitions of Socialist parties and labour union allies, arguing that these respective coalitions decisively affected their government's restructuring strategies. Featuring extensive field work and interviews with over one hundred political, labour, and business leaders, this is the first systematic comparison of these important Socialist governments.

Author : Loraine Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317937982

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The Politics of Economic Restructuring in India by Loraine Kennedy Pdf

State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and spatial restructuring. This book argues that in this reformed institutional context, where both state spaces and economic geographies are being rescaled, subnational states play an increasingly critical role in coordinating socioeconomic activities. The core thesis that the book defends is that the reform process has profoundly reconfigured the Indian state’s rapport with its territory at all spatial scales, and these processes of state spatial rescaling are crucial for comprehending emerging patterns of economic governance and growth. It demonstrates that the outcomes of India’s new policy regime are not only the product of impersonal market forces, but that they are also the result of endogenous political strategies, acting in conjunction with the territorial reorganisation of economic activities at various scales, ranging from local to global. Extensive empirical case material, primarily from field-based research, is used to support these theoretical assertions. Scholars of political economy, political and economic geography, industrial development, development studies and Asian Studies will find this a stimulating and innovative contribution to the study of the political economy in the developing countries.

Author : Xavier Lafrance
Publisher : Historical Materialism
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1642591882

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The Making of Capitalism in France by Xavier Lafrance Pdf

Political Scientist Xavier Lafrance provides a pathbreaking account of the emergence of capitalism in France.

Author : Jean-Pierre Dormois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521667879

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The French Economy in the Twentieth Century by Jean-Pierre Dormois Pdf

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Author : Eric Monnet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108415019

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Controlling Credit by Eric Monnet Pdf

Monnet analyzes monetary and central bank policy during the mid-twentieth century through close examination of the Banque de France.

Author : Alice Hoffenberg Amsden,Jacek Kochanowicz,Lance Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674549848

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The Market Meets Its Match by Alice Hoffenberg Amsden,Jacek Kochanowicz,Lance Taylor Pdf

Under free-market shock therapy, many economies of former socialist countries of Eastern Europe have declined. Why has there been so much stagnation, inflation, and de-industrialization, and what can be done to produce a turnaround? This book addresses these questions in revealing detail.

Author : Florin Aftalion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521368103

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The French Revolution by Florin Aftalion Pdf

The economic history of revolutionary France is still a neglected area in studies of the Revolution of 1789. Whilst some attention has been given to the condition of the peasants, the urban working classes and the financial crisis of the Ancient Régime, there has been a general tendency to regard economic factors as external and somewhat peripheral to the truly political nature of the Revolution. This book is designed to redress the balance, providing a clear, accessible, and thought-provoking guide to the economic background to the French Revolution. Professor Aftalion analyses the policies followed by successive revolutionary assemblies, examining in detail taxation, the confiscation of church property, the assignats, and the siege economy of the Terror. He shows how decisions taken in 1789 by the Constituent Assembly inevitably led to a deepening financial and economic crisis, and to increasingly radical and disastrous policies. The study is important also for its exposure of many of the economic fallacies propounded both at the time by many Frenchmen and later by many modern historians.

Author : Guy Sorman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781458731623

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Economics Does Not Lie by Guy Sorman Pdf

In 2005, The Woman at the Washington Zoo was published to major critical acclaim. The late Marjorie Williams possessed ''a special voice, one capable not just of canny political observations but of tenderness and bracing intimacy,'' observed the New York Times Book Review. Now, in a collection of profiles with the richness of short fiction, Williams limns the personalities that dominated politics and the media during the final years of the twentieth century. In these pages, Clark Clifford grieves ''in his laborious baritone'' a bank scandal's blow to his re-pu-taaaaaay-shun. Lee Atwater likens himself to Ulysses and pleads, ''tah me to the mast!'' Patricia Duff sheds ''precipitous tears'' over her divorce from Ronald Perelman, resembling afterwards ''a garden refreshed by spring rain.'' Reputation illuminates our recent past through expertly drawn portraits of powerful - and messily human - figures.

Author : John V. C. Nye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691190495

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War, Wine, and Taxes by John V. C. Nye Pdf

In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs—notably on French wine—as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others. The book reveals that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the eighteenth century to a bastion of free trade in the late nineteenth. This boldly revisionist account gives the first satisfactory explanation of Britain's transformation from a minor power to the dominant nation in Europe. It also shows how Britain and France negotiated the critical trade treaty of 1860 that opened wide the European markets in the decades before World War I. Going back to the seventeenth century and examining the peculiar history of Anglo-French military and commercial rivalry, Nye helps us understand why the British drink beer not wine, why the Portuguese sold liquor almost exclusively to Britain, and how liberal, eighteenth-century Britain managed to raise taxes at an unprecedented rate—with government revenues growing five times faster than the gross national product. War, Wine, and Taxes stands in stark contrast to standard interpretations of the role tariffs played in the economic development of Britain and France, and sheds valuable new light on the joint role of commercial and fiscal policy in the rise of the modern state.