Blind Decades

Philippe Askenazy is Senior Researcher at the Paris School of Economics and Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research. He is the author of La croissance moderne (2002) and Les desordres du travail (2004), among other books. Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and directs the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• Foreword Introduction Chapter 1. Four Decades of an Industrial Revolution Chapter 2. 1974--1981: The Creation of Mass Unemployment Chapter 3. 1981--1986: The Socialists Try Chapter 4. 1986--1993: From Hard to Soft Economic Liberalism Chapter 5. 1993--2002 : "New" Effective Policies? Chapter 6. 2002--2007: The Decay of French Economic Policy Chapter 7. 2007--2013: From Optimism to the Great Recession Chapter 8. The State of France: Four Decades after the First Oil Crisis Conclusion Index