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French Public Finances against Globalization: Resistance, Transformation, Reform

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State and Local Government Reforms in France and Germany

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Recent economic history has been marked by the intensification of the commercial and financial opening up of national economies. The economic forces at work seem to be imposing a “Great Retransformation” of capitalism – to use a “Polanyi-style dialectic” – a reduction in State intervention in favour of the reintroduction of incentive mechanisms based on the guiding ideal of pure and perfect competition.

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Blancheton, B. (2006). French Public Finances against Globalization: Resistance, Transformation, Reform. In: Hoffmann-Martinot, V., Wollmann, H. (eds) State and Local Government Reforms in France and Germany. Urban and Regional Research International, vol 7. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90271-5_8

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