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France in Crisis Welfare, Inequality, and Globalization since 1980 [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (History)
  • Author:  Smith, Timothy B.
  • Author:  Smith, Timothy B.
  • ISBN-10:  0521844142
  • ISBN-10:  0521844142
  • ISBN-13:  9780521844147
  • ISBN-13:  9780521844147
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  310
  • Pages:  310
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2004
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2004
  • SKU:  0521844142-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0521844142-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100782251
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Timothy Smith argues that the French economy and society is in crisis and that globalization is not to blame.France is in crisis. In this provocative new book, Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is collapsing inward on itself, the result of good intentions, bad policies, and vested interests who employ the rhetoric of 'solidarity' and the specter of globalisation to prevent change. Professor Smith makes frequent comparisons with the USA, UK, Canada, Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands.and argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian U.S. or British paths but instead can lead to a more equal society.France is in crisis. In this provocative new book, Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is collapsing inward on itself, the result of good intentions, bad policies, and vested interests who employ the rhetoric of 'solidarity' and the specter of globalisation to prevent change. Professor Smith makes frequent comparisons with the USA, UK, Canada, Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands.and argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian U.S. or British paths but instead can lead to a more equal society.Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is imploding on itself despite good intentions. Bad policies and vested interests that exploit the rhetoric of solidarity and the specter of globalization have prevented necessary changes from being effected. Making frequent comparisons with the U.S., U.K., Canada, Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands, Smith argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian U.S. or British paths in order to lead to a more balanced French society.Preface; 1. The misunderstood French welfare state; 2. Corporatist welfare states: the residue of the past, or the wave of the future?; 3. The 'treason of the intellectuals': globalization as the big excuse for France's economic and social problems; 4. France's break with socialism; 5. Persisting inequalitilC,
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