The interwar period constituted a ?golden age? for cartels. A lot of entrepreneurs or politicians considered even cartels as a good way to rebuild the European economy and to resolve the difficult problem of Reparations. It was the case of Louis Loucheur. Big contractor of civil engineering,...

In France, the Public-Private Partnership allowed the conciliation of the social function of public services and public works and the limitation of their cost for each citizen. They were in three sectors: transport, energy and water, during the nineteenth century and the first part of the...

From 1993 the Lafarge group became a world firm. 1993 is indeed the starting point of a sustained growth which led the group to be the world leader for cement and aggregates. Thanks to an excellent control of production costs and to high rates of investment, the group was able to maintain a high...