Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- Increasing...

"This is a comparison between London and Paris as international financial centres since the late nineteenth century. The chapters include both archive-based and synthetic surveys. It also gives insights into: the political economy of Britain and France in the twentieth century, and the history...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- John Edwards -- PART I: STATE, SOCIETY AND EMPLOYMENT -- 2. Flexibility: In Search of a New Social Settlement -- Jean-Paul Revauger -- 3. Fleixibility and Policies in Employment Reflections -- from Several European Countries -- Jean-Louis Meyer...