Verfasst von:	Lafrance, Xavier [VerfasserIn]
	Miller, Stephen Jacobus [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The transition to capitalism in modern France
Titelzusatz:	primitive accumulation and markets from the old regime to the post-WWII era
Verf.angabe:	Xavier Lafrance and Stephen Miller
Verlagsort:	London ; New York
Verlag:	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	229 Seiten
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Routledge studies in the modern history of France
ISBN:	978-0-367-55300-5
	978-0-367-55304-3
Abstract:	"Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit available on the market, especially the large consumer market in Paris. Whatever economic weaknesses existed did not stem from the social structure but from exogenous forces such as wars, the lack of natural resources, or slow demographic growth. This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of non-capitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled the lands and workshops in autonomous communities and did not have to improve labor productivity to survive. Merchants and manufacturers cornered markets instead of being subject to the market's competitive imperatives. These distinctive features of capitalism, primitive accumulation (the dispossession of peasants and artisans) and the competitive obligation faced by merchants and manufacturers to reinvest profits in order to keep the profits, did not prevail until the state imposed them in a process lasting for a century after the 1850s. For this reason, it was not until the 1960s that France caught up to (and in some cases surpassed) its economic rivals"
DOI:	doi:10.4324/9781003092896
URL:	DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003092896
Schlagwörter:	(g)Frankreich    / (s)Wirtschaftsentwicklung    / (z)Geschichte 1856-1960
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Lafrance, Xavier: Transition to capitalism in modern France. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024
K10plus-PPN:	1858355842