France and the International Economy: From Vichy to the Treaty of Rome

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ISBN: 9780415142199 | 0415142199
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Copyright: 3/13/1997

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An account of a the formative period in French economic history, topics range from post-war negotiations, the modernization of French agriculture, to the liberalization of trade in the 1950s. This is a comprehensive history of a critically formative period in French economic history. Frances Lynch covers topics such as the post-war negotiations for American aid, the reconstruction of a capital market, the modernization of French agriculture, the liberalization of trade in the 1950s and subsequent economic growth.

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List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
Archival references
Introduction	p. 1
Out of the Abyss	p. 7
The legacy of the past	p. 7
The French economy between the wars	p. 9
Planning for the postwar	p. 11
Planning under Vichy	p. 14
The legacy of the French Resistance	p. 17
National security issues	p. 20
Negotiating American Aid	p. 24
The lend-lease agreement with the United States	p. 25
An American loan	p. 35
The Blum-Byrnes negotiations	p. 40
The failure of a mission?	p. 47
France and the Marshall Plan	p. 52
The 1947 crisis	p. 52
The economic effects of Marshall Aid	p. 57
The modernization of the steel industry	p. 59
Marshall Aid and the French machine tool industry	p. 66
Financing Investment Under the Monnet Plan	p. 72
The counterpart of Marshall Aid	p. 85
France and the Reconstruction of Western Europe	p. 103
The French Customs Union proposals	p. 104
Marshall Aid: the problem of distribution	p. 107
The long-term programme	p. 110
Trade Liberalization or Protection?	p. 128
French plans for liberalizing trade 1950-51	p. 131
The return to protectionism	p. 134
Alternatives to GATT	p. 143
Modernizing French Agriculture	p. 146
The Monnet Plan for agriculture	p. 148
Mechanization	p. 151
Land consolidation	p. 152
Use of the price mechanism	p. 154
The wheat crisis	p. 155
The revised plan for agriculture	p. 157
The second plan for agriculture	p. 161
Towards the Common Market	p. 169
The Retreat from Empire	p. 186
The imperial plans of Vichy and the Resistance	p. 187
Postwar planning for the overseas territories	p. 189
The revised plan for the French Union	p. 190
A new commercial regime from the empire	p. 195
Tariff regimes in the French Union	p. 197
The future of the French Union?	p. 198
Appendices	p. 206
Conclusion	p. 210
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 223
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