France and the International Economy: From Vichy to the Treaty of Rome
by Lynch,FrancesEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-03-13
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| 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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