[eng] A bstract. Currently fully committed as they are, to take on all comers in international competition. French civil engineering contractors are evincing, once more, the thrust they had sustained up to the end of the 1950s. Then as now, such innovation-driven thrust represents, as a whole,...

[eng] Abstract For the French civil engineering and public works industry, the war brought about a sharp downturn in activity. The only growth area was that of work on German projects : though this was to accrue mainly to German firms, the did lead, in France, to many instances of firm creation....

[fre] Résumé . Walt W. Rostow s'est rendu célèbre par son ouvrage Les étapes de la croissance économique : un manifeste anti-communiste, paru en 1960. Conseiller économique des Présidents américains, Kennedy et Johnson, il développait l'idée que l'aide américaine au développement,...

[eng] Abstract From the 1880s, conditions on the international market for civil engineering and public works saw a change, as a result, concurrently, of a shift in demand (with completion of a major infrastructures Western and Central Europe and the redeployment towards the colonies, and later...

[eng] Abstract Set up in at the instigation of François Caron, as a programme to be carried out by the Institut d'Histoire Moderne -I. H. M. С- of the French C.N.R.S., the project of a Statistical Repertory of the French economy is now well under way, with the publication of one book, bearing...