Transcript France: Whither Indicative Planning?

France: Whither Indicative
Planning?
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The country of paradoxes
The revolutionary tradition
The country of –isms
The European integration
Factoid
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publication
s/factbook/geos/fr.html
The theory of indicative planning
• CGP (Ministry of Finance)
• Marshall
Plan:http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/
• INSEE
Performance of plans
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War damage repair
Concertation
Macroeconomic forecasting (success peak)
Social goals, infrastructure, regional policy
Microeconomics, competitiveness, inflation
Supply side rapid industrial growth
Anti-planning phase (d’Estaing)
Continued
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High-tech momentum(1980-1984)
Administrative decentralization(1984-1988)
European integration (1989-1992)
Maastricht treaty
Labor-management relations
• Corporatism
• Autogestion