Valéry Giscard d'Estaing would not have liked to read this book.
But he would have had a hard time proving her wrong.
At least he would have noticed that he was doing better than Jacques Chirac, the real gravedigger of our industrial greatness, but less well than de Gaulle, who also understood the stakes of the global economic war which was looming, he is true in a period when France was riding at 5.5% growth.
The excellent historical essay by Michel Hau and Félix Torrès traces the social and economic choices made in France since the end of the 1960s. It benchmarks them with those of the neighbors, it reviews the analyzes and forecasts made at the time by the procession of experts.
This meticulous work of restoring an intellectual climate is salutary and overwhelming.
He mercilessly auscultates the viscerally protectionist culture of this country: the addiction to devaluation, the mystique of the plan, the vision of the company as a simple "unit of account" and not as a "community.
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