French Economy in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Pierre Dormois, a former Knox Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge, is currently Professor of Economic History at the University Marc-Bloch in Strasbourg. Among his books are L'économie française face à la concurrence britannique (Paris 1997) and The British Industrial Decline (ed.), (London 1998). Klappentext Surveys the spectacular transformation that the French economy has undergone over the past century. Zusammenfassung This textbook surveys the spectacular transformation that the French economy has undergone over the past century. It offers a general introduction to the long-term as well as more recent transformations of the French economy and surveys the major themes associated with French economic development: exceptionalism! Malthusianism and statism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The end of French exceptionalism; 2. French economic performance in international perspective; 3. France and the wider world; 4. The changing guises of Colbertism; 5. The institutions of French capitalism; 6. Labour: the French at work; 7. Tilling and grazing: lifeblood or strain?; 8. Industrialisation, de-industrialisation, post-industrialisation; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Jean-Pierre Dormois, Jean-Pierre (Universite De Strasbourg II Dormois, Jean-Pierre (Universite de Strasbourg II (Sciences Humaines)) Dormois
• Assisted by: Maurice Kirby (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2004
• EAN: 9780521667876
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66787-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: New Studies in Economic and Social History; New Studies in Economic and So; New Studies in Economic and So; New Studies in Economic and Social History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics