"À travers le prisme de la dette, c'est toute une conception de la vie en société qui se déroule. La dette est plus que jamais un sujet politique." Depuis plusieurs décennies, le volume de la dette publique française enfle de manière irréversible. Les récentes crises - financières,...

France ranks as the world's third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes the compelling aims and interests--national independence, security, economic welfare, foreign influence, grandeur--that explain the nation's successes...

Taking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated.Originally published in 1987.The...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism -- 2. Work in the Mines -- 3. The Company Town and the State -- 4. Community in Crisis -- 5. The Long Depression -- 6. The Second Industrial Revolution -- 7. The Politics of Production -- 8. The...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. AN OUTLINE OF FRENCH AND BRITISH ECONOMIC GROWTH SINCE 1851 -- CHAPTER 2. RESOURCES -- CHAPTER 3. CAPITAL -- CHAPTER 4. POPULATION -- CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH -- CHAPTER 6. ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- CHAPTER 7....