France Encounters Globalization

This book is the first in English to comprehensively examine the French economy and how it is adjusting to the exigencies of an increasingly globalized environment.

The opening of the French market to international competition has forced recent governments to realize that the old closed model in which France had considerable autonomy over policy is no longer valid. French solutions to domestic problems had to be given up in the early 1980s. Changes in technology have had dramatic impacts on...