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7 - A Pillar of the Golden Age? European Integration and the Trente Glorieuses

from Market, Society and Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2023

By
Antonio Varsori  and
Lorenzo Mechi
Edited by
Mathieu Segers  and
Steven Van Hecke
Mathieu Segers
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
Steven Van Hecke
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Summary

In 1979 the French economist Jean Fourastié, who had been a member of Jean Monnet’s ‘Commissariat au Plan’ and an expert both in the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) and in the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), published the volume Les Trente Glorieuses ou la révolution invisible de 1946 à 1975. The book analysed the development of the French economy after the Second World War until the aftermath of the oil shock which hit the Western world in late 1973, after the Yom Kippur War. When it was published, Western countries had already launched a number of initiatives to respond to the economic troubles caused by the oil shock. At the same time, they had begun to seek solutions to the monetary problems caused by the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, with the start of the Group of Seven meetings and the first attempts at monetary coordination among the European Economic Community (EEC) member countries.

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The Cambridge History of the European Union , pp. 189 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Varsori, A. ‘European Regional Policy: The Foundations of Solidarity’, in Dumoulin, M. (ed.), The European Commission 1958–72: History and Memories (Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007), pp. 411–26.Google Scholar
Varsori, A. ‘The Emergence of a Social Europe’, in Dumoulin, M. (ed.), The European Commission 1958–72: History and Memories (Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007), pp. 427–41.Google Scholar
Varsori, A. and Mechi, L.. ‘At the Origins of the European Structural Policy: The Community’s Social and Regional Policies from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s’, in van der Harst, J. (ed.), Beyond the Customs Union: The European Community’s Quest for Deepening, Widening and Completion, 1969–1975 (Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2007), pp. 223–50.Google Scholar

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