1968 Volume 34 Issue 1 Pages 69-78,119
Economic historians have tended recently to consider the French economy in the 19th century as stagnant. Most of them point out such factors as the scarcity of natural resources and labour force, the family organization of firms, the conservative social structure, the slow growth rate of population and others, which have retarded French economic growth. Mr. Takaoka's point is that these factors, considered as having brought out French retardation in the last century, should be reconsidered, mainly because we find the postwar French economy making remarkable progress.
