Through refreshing, ideologically freewheeling discussion, Granville provides a positive take on the innovations of our digital age, exploring their potential to bring about a more representative democracy and a fairer society. What Ails France? offers a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership, applying an economist’s vision to the monetary and fiscal pathologies flowing from this ideologically motivated technocratic rule, reflected in Europe’s flawed monetary union, runaway indebtedness, and chronically high structural unemployment. In doing so, she reveals the ways in which the monetary union has directly impaired the performance of the French economy and damaged living standards.
MQUP author Brigitte Granville views this malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the difficulties experienced by many advanced industrial democracies in the face of globalization, technology, and mass immigration.įor this week’s blog post, Brigitte Granville explores the history and French origins of the Euro in relation to contemporary French political economy and her insightful new book What Ails France?. As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires gloom among many of its citizens.
