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Monograph proposing a new form of protectionism to safeguard the market economy of Western Europe - argues that free trade and trade development cannot assure full employment and prosperity, considers relationships between labour productivity, standard of living and tariffs, and deals with appropriate protectionist measures, the need for a common monetary system in western europe, etc. Graphs and statistical tables.
Author: Jacques Sapir Publisher: QUE SAIS-JE ISBN: 2715408536 Category : Business & Economics Languages : fr Pages : 71
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Comment peut-on être protectionniste ? Pour le discours économique dominant, c’est le libre-échange qui a apporté la prospérité générale, la paix internationale et le bonheur des peuples. Mais ce discours n’entretient-il pas sciemment la confusion entre autarcie et protectionnisme, surtout si l’on envisage celui-ci comme une forme de régulation, à l’image des écluses régulant le cours d’un fleuve ? Le retour du protectionnisme est aujourd’hui une évidence. Il a une histoire, qui remonte à la naissance de l’économie politique « classique ». Parmi ses principaux théoriciens : Georg Friedrich List (1789-1846) ou encore Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879). Or, le protectionnisme peut-il réellement avoir de l’avenir dans un monde ouvert et globalisé ? C’est ce que Jacques Sapir explore dans cet ouvrage. Sans être exhaustif mais avec un grand souci de clarté, il donne une vue fidèle du déploiement de la pensée protectionniste et des arguments qui plaident en sa faveur. Ce faisant, il déconstruit quelques idées reçues bien ancrées et prouve notamment que c’est le protectionnisme, et non le libre-échange, qui est à l’origine de la croissance économique...
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Une analyse du protectionnisme contemporain et de son retour en force qui modifie l’ordre économique mondial. S’appuyant sur une large perspective historique, cet ouvrage montre que le protectionnisme contemporain s’inscrit dans une longue tradition d’intervention des États pour se protéger de la concurrence extérieure. Il fait également ressortir la multiplicité de ses objectifs : motifs écologiques, stratégies de développement, protection de l’emploi et lutter contre la désindustrialisation. Dès lors, le retour en force du protectionnisme pourrait s’inscrire dans une inflexion durable de l’ordre économique international.
Author: P. Fysh Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230288332 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 284
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While most analyses of the French National Front (NF) see it as a threat to democracy, the exact nature of this threat has never been clearly defined. Drawing on interviews with leading far-right figures and access to internal party documents, this book identifies the NF as a modern fascist party. The authors produce an uncompromising assessment of attempts to confront the NF and explain how it emerged as the leading challenger to a discredited mainstream in the 2002 presidential election.
Author: William James Adams Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 9780815719762 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 426
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At the end of World War II, experts on both sides of the Atlantic believed that France was doomed to economic stagnation. French culture and institutions, they argued, inhibited the changes in economic structure that sustained growth would require. But in spite of these predictions and the occasional volatility of the world economy, the French economy grew rapidly. Only the Japanese, of the major economies, has grown faster, and by 1975 the French standard of living matched that of West Germany. Restructuring the French Economy looks at the four decades of the structural changes that fostered growth and explores explanations of why such changes occurred. Drawing on many and diverse primary materials, including government statistics, judicial decisions, and professional memoirs, Adams examines three different explanations of France's postwar economic success. The first downplays the extent of structural change during the surge of growth. The second emphasizes the importance of government policies to compensate for inadequate private initiative. The third suggests that European economic integration and French decolonization created enough market competition to push the private sector into its own restructuring. Adams stresses that if government initiatives worked well, they did so in an environment of strong market competition; if competition seemed to work wonders, it occurred only as a result of government actions. He also devotes considerable attention to the implications of his findings for U.S. policy concerning European protectionism and the health and growth of American industries.
Author: Hartmut Elsenhans Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003847110 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 249
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This book assembles main contributions to an alternative explanation of globalisation and the political economic structures of the international system. As the result of capitalism, globalisation does not transfer basic capitalist structures from the Centre to the Periphery. Capitalism is based on rising mass incomes that create investment opportunities and, thus, the possibility of profit. A structurally homogeneous and ultraimperialist Centre dominates a deeply fissured Periphery of structurally heterogeneous societies and economies. Capitalism penetrates underdeveloped regions and deforms them through rent, which obstructs expanding internal mass markets while labour goes unempowered. Rent constitutes the basis for state operations and the role of emerging state classes. While globalisation disempowers labour in both the West and in the South, it has given new comparative advantage to the South. The shift from rent appropriation in the South via raw material exports to export-led manufacturing is based on devaluation below purchasing power parity and, hence, on a rent from agriculture that is based on the Green Revolution. Its impact is, however, not always sufficient to compensate for the loss of influence experienced by social reformist forces. A novel multipolar system based on the balance power has emerged. Mutliethnic empires are held together with large varieties of however always identitarian ideologies. This global system is composed of powers that are internally and externally opposed to peaceful change. Across the globe, there is an impending danger of globalisation of rent. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Author: Gregory Flynn Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000309622 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 331
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In this volume, distinguished French and U.S. historians, economists, and political scientists explore the dimensions of France's current crisis of identity. Although every European nation has been adjusting to the dramatic transformations on the continent since the end of the Cold War, France's struggle to adapt has been particularly difficult. Responding to a mix of external and internal pressures, the nation is now questioning many basic assumptions about how France should be governed, what the objectives of national policies should be, and ultimately what it means to be French. Rather than focusing explicitly on the problem of identity, the contributors offer differing perspectives on the issues at the heart of the country's debate about its future. They begin by examining how France's historical legacy has influenced the way the nation confronts contemporary problems, giving special attention to the manner in which past traumatic experiences, socioeconomic and cultural traditions, and the belief in French exceptionalism have shaped current political thinking. They then consider how favoring a more open approach to trade and building a strong franc have changed the culture of economic policy and created dilemmas for the rule of the state as a guarantor of welfare. They go on to explore changes in elite structures, the evolution of the party system, and the spillover of new political conditions that are driving France's efforts to establish a strong national identity in the area of trade. Finally, the contributors examine the central influence of the changing international framework on France's self-definition, on its security policies, its relationship to the European Union, and its basic perceptions of the state and sovereignty. They also consider how the answers to these questions are affecting France's relationships with the outside world and the overriding policy dilemmas faced by all the European nations.
Author: Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
Author: Front national (France : 1972- ). Conseil scientifique. Colloque
Author: Jacques Sapir
Author: Serge D'Agostino
Author: Gérard-Marie Henry
Author: Henri Bourguinat
Author: P. Fysh
Author: William James Adams
Author: Hartmut Elsenhans
Author: Gregory Flynn