Histoire économique de la France du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours, tome 1

Synopsis of Histoire économique de la France du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours, tome 1

«Histoire économique de la France du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours, tome 1» is the economic history essay by Jean-Charles Asselain (Seuil, paperback).

Jean-Charles Asselain analyzes, using quantitative history methods, the contradictions of French economic growth from the Ancien Régime to the First World War: against pessimism about permanent disadvantages, he shows alternating phases of great dynamism and relative decline, without rigid periodicity.

First volume of the series on the French economy since the eighteenth century. Originally published in 1984 in the Points Histoire collection.

Work aimed at readers of French economic history and those who value quantitative analysis of growth.