Jean Fourastie
Jean Fourastie ( 15 April 1907 at Saint-Benin-d'Azy - 25 July 1990 at Douelle ) was an economist French , best known for being the source of the term the designating the prosperous period experienced by of France and most industrialized countries at the end of the Second World War the first oil shock ( 1947 - 1973 ). This term has passed into common parlance.
Jean Fourastie is better known for his work on prices, productivity and above all technological progress. According to him, therein lies the key mechanisms of economic fundamentals (changes in prices and rents, explanation of crises and unemployment, trade shows ...).
Technological optimism (Great Hope of the twentieth century, PUF 1949, Machinery and Wellness, Ed Minuit, 1951; The 40,000 hours, 1965) led him to announce the 30-hour week and a working life of about 35 years. And provide that the company evolves relentlessly towards a civilization of tertiary type, dominated by services, but yet where humanity will not spontaneously morality.
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Biography
Jean Fourastie performs his primary and secondary college Juilly between 1915 and 1928. In 1930 he became engineer for the Arts and Manufactures (Engineer from Ecole Centrale), then in 1933 graduated from the Free School of Political Science and Doctor of Law in 1932. Following these successful studies, he entered a competition in the administration as Commissioner controller, then Comptroller General Insurance Commissioner until his secondment in 1951.
Mobilized in 1937 , he was taken prisoner and escaped. It is 1939 junior lecturer in insurance at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers.
It goes from war to drive a career economic adviser, with a European tie and very strong liberal, while becoming one of the best known scholars in the field of forecasting and analysis of industrial society.
The advisor and planner
In 1944, Jean Monnet called the Plan Commission, first as chief economist, then as economic adviser. Chairman of the Committee on Modernisation of the Labour Commissioner to the plan , it will remain so for four successive shots. In 1961 he was chosen member of the "1985 work" of the Planning Commission.
The expert European and international
It was recruited in 1940 as Vice-Chair of the scientific and technical issues at the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), a future OECD. From 1949 to 1955 he was chairman of the research group of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the conditions and consequences of technological progress in the steel industry. In 1958, he became expert on the UN to the Mexican government and the Economic Commission for Latin America.
The university
Appointed in 1947 professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (until his retirement in 1978), in 1953 he became director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. In 1964 he was appointed professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Mtiers , Chair of Economics and Industrial Statistics.
Columnist
In 1969, he became a columnist for Le Figaro and runs until 1968 the "quarter-hour monthly on French television.
In 1968 he was elected to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences , where he became president in 1978. In 1981 he was appointed chairman of the Central Administrative Board of the Institute.
Major research themes
Books
- 1937 The State Control over insurance companies. Paris, Faculty of Law, 1937, 275 p.
- 1941 The New Legal Regime and technical insurance in France. Paris, L'Argus, 1941, 282 p.
- 1943 The Accounting. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, coll. "What do I know? , 1943, 128 p.
- 1944 in accordance with Financial Accounting General Accounting Plan. Paris, Librairie gnrale de droit and jurisprudence, 1944, 271 p.
- 1945 The French Economy in the world, with the collaboration of Henri Montet. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, coll. "What do I know? , No. 191, 1945, 136 p.
- 1946 The Insurance at economically and socially. Paris, Payot, 1946, 132 p. Library (economic).
- 1947 Outline of a general theory of evolution in contemporary economic, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1947, 32 p.
- 1947 The Civilization of 1960. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1947. 120 p. (Coll. "Que sais-je?" No. 279). Ed redesigned in 1953 under the title: Civilization, 1975, 1974, under the title: The Civilization of 1995 and 1982 under the title: Civilization in 2001. 11th ed. : 1982.
- 1948 Note on the Philosophy of Science, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1948, 36 p.
- 1949 The Great Hope of the twentieth century. Technical progress, economic progress, social progress. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1949, 224 p. - Reed collection 1989 Tel Gallimard
- 1951-52 Technical progress and economic developments, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris, courts of law (two volumes), 1951-52, 249 p.
- 1951 Machinery and well-being. Paris, Ed de Minuit, 1951, 256 p. (Coll. Human and Machine, directed by Georges Friedmann, No. 1)
- 1952 The Productivity Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1952, 120 p. (Coll. "Que sais-je?" No. 557). (11th ed.: 1987)
- 1955 The economic forecasting and management companies. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1955, 152 p.
- 1957 Productivity, prices and wages, Paris, OEEC, 1957, 115 p.
- 1959 Why we work. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1959, 128 p. (Coll. "Que sais-je?" No. 818). (8th ed.: 1984). (Translated into Spanish, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Greek).
- 1961 The Great Makeover of the twentieth century. Tests on some problems of humanity today. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1961, 224 p.
- 1963 The Economic Planning in France, with the collaboration of Jean-Paul Courtheoux. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1963, 208 p. (Coll. The Organizer)
- 1965 The 40 000 hours. Paris, Laffont-Gonthier, 1965. 247 p. (Coll. Inventory of the future No. 1).
- 1966 The Conditions of the scientific spirit. Paris, Gallimard, 1966, 256 p. (Coll. Ideas No. 96).
- 1966 Moral Essays prospectively. Paris, Gonthier, 1966, 200 p.
- 1970 Open Letter to four billion people. Paris, A. Michel, 1970, 167 p. (Coll. Open Letter)
- 1970 Leisure: What for?, Paris Castermann 1970, 143 p. (Cool. Mutations Guidelines)
- 1973-74 Forecast, futurology, prospective, Quote of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. 1973-74. Paris, law courses, 1974, 113 p. (Mimeo).
- 1974 The Church has betrayed? Dialogue between John and Fourastie Laurentin. Paris, Beauchesne, 1974, 192 p.
- 1977 purchasing power, prices and wages, with the collaboration of Jacqueline Fourastie. Paris, Gallimard, 1977, 223 p. (Coll. Ideas No. 374).
- 1978 The economic reality. Towards the revision of the dominant ideas in France, in collaboration with Jacqueline Fourastie, Paris, R. Laffont, 1978, 365 p. (Reprinted in 1986, Paris, Hachette, 423 p. al. Plural No. 8488).
- 1979 The Thirty Glorious, or Invisible Revolution from 1946 to 1975, Paris, Fayard, 1979, 300 p. (Reed Hachette Pluriel No. 8363).
- What I think 1981, Paris, Grasset, 1981
- 1983 The Laughing, then Paris, Denol-Gonthier, 1983
- 1984 Why do prices go down, with the collaboration of Beatrice Bazil, Paris, Hachette, 1984, 320 p. (Plural coll. No. 8390)
On Jean Fourastie
Bulat Regis, Jean Fourastie, an expert on productivity. The modernization of France (thirties - fifties), Besanon, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comte, "Thesis", 2008, 460 p., 26.
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