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| Preface | ||
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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Out of the Abyss | 7 |
| The legacy of the past | 7 | |
| The French economy between the wars | 9 | |
| Planning for the postwar | 11 | |
| Planning under Vichy | 14 | |
| The legacy of the French Resistance | 17 | |
| National security issues | 20 | |
| 2 | Negotiating American Aid | 24 |
| The lend-lease agreement with the United States | 25 | |
| An American loan | 35 | |
| The Blum-Byrnes negotiations | 40 | |
| The failure of a mission? | 47 | |
| 3 | France and the Marshall Plan | 52 |
| The 1947 crisis | 52 | |
| The economic effects of Marshall Aid | 57 | |
| The modernization of the steel industry | 59 | |
| Marshall Aid and the French machine tool industry | 66 | |
| 4 | Financing Investment Under the Monnet Plan | 72 |
| The counterpart of Marshall Aid | 85 | |
| 5 | France and the Reconstruction of Western Europe | 103 |
| The French Customs Union proposals | 104 | |
| Marshall Aid: the problem of distribution | 107 | |
| The long-term programme | 110 | |
| 6 | Trade Liberalization or Protection? | 128 |
| French plans for liberalizing trade 1950-51 | 131 | |
| The return to protectionism | 134 | |
| Alternatives to GATT | 143 | |
| 7 | Modernizing French Agriculture | 146 |
| The Monnet Plan for agriculture | 148 | |
| Mechanization | 151 | |
| Land consolidation | 152 | |
| Use of the price mechanism | 154 | |
| The wheat crisis | 155 | |
| The revised plan for agriculture | 157 | |
| The second plan for agriculture | 161 | |
| 8 | Towards the Common Market | 169 |
| 9 | The Retreat from Empire | 186 |
| The imperial plans of Vichy and the Resistance | 187 | |
| Postwar planning for the overseas territories | 189 | |
| The revised plan for the French Union | 190 | |
| A new commercial regime from the empire | 195 | |
| Tariff regimes in the French Union | 197 | |
| The future of the French Union? | 198 | |
| Appendices | 206 | |
| Conclusion | 210 | |
| Bibliography | 217 | |
| Index | 223 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $172.80 | Digital |
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Adam Booth
reviewed France and the International Economy on October 28, 2019
France and the International Economy
A well-written if underwhelming tour of the lives of America's gilded class. The book is dated for having been published over a decade ago and indeed right before the calamitous 2008 financial crisis. Frank doesn't engage the question of whether it is ethical or spiritually healthy for anyone to accumulate hundreds of millions of dollars in personal wealth or to own multiple colors of the same Rolls Royce Phantom. What he does illustrate though is just how many people like this there are (a lot) and the degree to which money itself feels like an illusory concept. Perhaps before 2008 it was still plausible to feel like there was anything remotely wholesome about this kind of accumulation, but I would volunteer that far fewer people would receive this book well today. The analysis is very journalistic, lots of scenes and quotes, but also light on big picture contextualizing. For that reason I would say its analytic value today is limited, although it is an easy read.
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