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Thirty Glorious Years
Why the success of the period from the mid 1940s to the mid 1970s?
- Population Increase
- Agricultural Advances
- Devaluation of Currency
- Planning
- Bureaucracy
- Infrastructure
- Industry
- Europe
Jean Fourastié gave title ‘les trente glorieuses’
- By 1959 France had the highest per capita consumption in Europe
But, inflation was stubbornly embedded into the French economy throughout this period.