. Granville brings trenchant criticism to bear in this wide-ranging survey of the political economy of contemporary France …

economy, dealing first with government efforts to solve certain general problems: reconstruction of the economic system …’s traditional role of public financier and its less orthodox role as entrepreneur in the large sector of the economy now under …

Intro -- Preface -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introducing the French Economy -- Historiographical overview … -- Growth and structural change in the French economy, 1945-2018 -- Overview of the performance of the French economy, 1945 …-2018 -- The economy under the Fourth Republic, 1945-58 -- The economy under Gaullism, 1958-74 -- From recession to U-turn, 1974 …