Lafrance, Xavier
Miller, Stephen (1968- )
Editorial: Routledge
Colección: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France
Número de páginas: 236 págs.
Fecha de edición: 03-11-2023
EAN: 9780367553005
ISBN: 978-0-367-55300-5
Precio (sin IVA): 173,84 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 180,79 €
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. This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its rivals because of noncapitalist social relations. Specifically, peasants and artisans controlled 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.