Economic Management and French Business
Subtitle: From de Gaulle to Chirac
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780333761489
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Economic history; European studies; Political ideologies; Political structure & processes; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Political Science / Economic Policy; 20th century; Economic Conditions; Economic policy; France
First sentence: countries in Western Europe, had been playing catch-up with the United Sates, taking advantage of the free flow of technology, investment and trade across the North Atlantic that was a feature of the new international order. As a natural consequence of expanded trade and investment flows, the French economy had become relatively open to international economic movements, fluctuations and influences, although still less so than the British of German economies.