Jean Fourastié
Jean Fourastié (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fuʁastje]; 15 April 1907 in Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nièvre - 25 July 1990 in Douelle, Lot) was a French economist,[1] notable for having coined the expression Trente Glorieuses ("the glorious thirty [years]") to describe the period of prosperity that France experienced from the end of World War II until the 1973 oil crisis (1945-1973).[2][3][4]
Jean Fourastié | |
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Born | Saint Benin d'Azy (Nièvre, France) | April 15, 1907
Died | July 25, 1990 |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École Centrale Paris, École Libre des Sciences Politiques, Université de Paris |
Awards | Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economy - Sociology - philosophia |
Thesis | Le contrôle de l'Etat sur les Sociétés d'Assurance (1936) |
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Biography
Fourastié received his elementary and secondary education at the private Catholic College of Juilly from 1914 to 1925. In 1930, he graduated from the prestigious École Centrale Paris, and in 1933 received a degree from the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. In 1936, he received a doctor of law degree. Following his studies, he entered the civil service as a tax official until 1951.
In 1941, he headed the insurance program at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM).
Following the war, he began his career as an economic advisor, with a strong liberal, pro-European stance, while at the same time becoming one of the most recognized academic experts on industrial society.
Government advisor
In 1945, Jean Monnet—often regarded as the father of the European Union—asked Fourastié to serve as an economic advisor on the Commissariat général du Plan, a body of domestic policy experts under the authority of the Prime Minister of France. He served four terms as president of the workforce modernization commission, and in 1961 he was chosen as a member of the "1985 working group" of the commissariat.
European and international expert
Fourastié was recruited in 1948 as vice president of the scientific and technical committee of the European Economic Cooperation Organization (predecessor of the OECD). From 1954 to 1957, he led the European Coal and Steel Community's study group on the conditions and effects of technical progress in the steel industry. In 1957 he was appointed as a United Nations expert for the Mexican government and to the economic commission for Latin America.
Academic career
Economic sectors |
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Three-sector model |
Primary sector: raw materials Secondary sector: manufacturing Tertiary sector: services |
Additional sectors |
Quaternary sector: information services Quinary sector: human services |
Theorists |
AGB Fisher · Colin Clark · Jean Fourastié |
Sectors by ownership |
Business sector · Private sector · Public sector · Voluntary sector |
Fournastié was a professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris until his retirement in 1978. He became professor (Directeur d'études) at the VIth section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (later EHESS) [5] in 1951, and from 1960 he held the chair of Economics and Industrial Statistics at CNAM.
Editorialist
In 1966, Fourastié became an editor of Le Figaro and until 1968 he presented the monthly program "Quart d'heure" ("quarter hour") on French television.
In 1968, he was elected to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and became its president in 1978. In 1981, he was named president of the central administrative commission of the French Institute.[6]
Principal areas of research
Publications
- Le Contrôle de l'État sur les sociétés d'assurances. Paris, Faculté de Droit, 1937, 275 p.
- Le Nouveau Régime juridique et technique de l'assurance en France. Paris, L'Argus, 1941, 282 p.
- La Comptabilité. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1943, 128 p. Coll. Que sais-je? (ISBN 978-2130386087)
- Comptabilité générale conforme au plan comptable général. Paris, Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1944, 271 p.
- L'Économie française dans le monde, avec la collaboratioun de Henri Montet. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1945, 136 p., Coll. Que sais-je ? n° 191
- Les Assurances au point de vue économique et social. Paris, Payot, 1946, 132 p. (Bibliothèque économique).
- Esquisse d'une théorie générale de l'évolution économique contemporaine, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1947, 32 p.
- Note sur la philosophie des sciences, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1948, 36 p.
- Le Grand Espoir du XXe siècle. Progrès technique, progrès économique, progrès social. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1949, 224 p. - Réed 1989 collection Tel Gallimard[7][8]
- La Civilisation de 1960. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1947. 120 p. (Coll. Que sais-je ? n° 279). Ed. remaniée en 1953 sous le titre : La Civilisation de 1975, en 1974, sous le titre : La Civilisation de 1995 et en 1982 sous le titre : La Civilisation de 2001. 11e éd. : 1982.
- Le progrès technique et l'évolution économique, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Paris, les cours de Droit (deux fascicules), 1951-52, 249 p.
- Machinisme et bien-être. Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1951, 256 p. (Coll. l'Homme et la machine, dirigée par Georges Friedmann, n° 1), translated in English : The causes of wealth, The Free Press of Glencoe, Illinois, 1960.
- La Productivité Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1952, 120 p. (Coll. Que sais-je ? n° 557). (11e éd. : 1987) (ISBN 978-2130398660)
- La prévision économique et la direction des entreprises. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1955, 152 p.
- Productivity, prices et wages, Paris, O.E.C.E., 1957, 115 p.
- Pourquoi nous travaillons. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1959, 128 p. (Coll. Que sais-je ? n° 818). (8e éd. : 1984). (Traduit en espagnol, japonais, allemand, portugais, grec) (ISBN 978-2130384762).
- La Grande Métamorphose du XXe siècle. Essais sur quelques problèmes de l'humanité d'aujourd'hui. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1961, 224 p.
- La Planification économique en France, avec la collaboration de Jean-Paul Courthéoux. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1963, 208 p. (Coll. L'organisateur)
- Les Conditions de l'esprit scientifique. Paris, Gallimard, 1966, 256 p. (Coll. Idées n° 96).
- Les 40 000 heures. Paris, Gonthier-Laffont, 1965. 247 p. (Coll. Inventaire de l'avenir n°1).[9]
- Essais de morale prospective. Paris, Gonthier ; 1966, 200 p.
- Lettre ouverte à quatre milliards d'hommes. Paris, A. Michel, 1970, 167 p. (Coll. Lettre ouverte)
- Prévision, futurologie, prospective, Cours de l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. 1973-74. Paris, Les cours de droit, 1974, 113 p. (ronéoté).
- L'Église a-t-elle trahi ? Dialogue entre Jean Fourastié et René Laurentin. Paris, Beauchesne, 1974, 192 p.
- Pouvoir d'achat, prix et salaires, avec la collaboration de Jacqueline Fourastié. Paris, Gallimard, 1977, 223 p. (Coll. Idées n° 374).
- La réalité économique. Vers la révision des idées dominantes en France, avec la collaboration de Jacqueline Fourastié, Paris, R. Laffont, 1978, 365 p. (Réédité en 1986, Paris, Hachette, 423 p. Coll. Pluriel n° 8488) .
- Les Trente Glorieuses, ou la révolution invisible de 1946 à 1975, Paris, Fayard, 1979, 300 p. (Rééd Hachette Pluriel n° 8363) (ISBN 978-2213006833).
- Ce que je crois, Paris, Grasset, 1981.
- Le Rire, suite, Paris, Denoël-Gonthier, 1983
- Pourquoi les prix baissent, avec la collaboration de Béatrice Bazil, Paris, Hachette, 1984, 320 p. (Coll. Pluriel n° 8390).[10]
See also
Notes and references
- jstor.org Academy of Political Science
- nytimes.com
- latimes.com
- jstor.org
- EHESS
- (in French) asmp.fr
- Google Scholar, Branko Milanovic, "Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality", Prologue. The Promise of the Twentieth Century
- journals.cambridge.org
- (in French) fourastie-sauvy.org, Jean Louis Harouel, Les 40 000 heures : préface
- (in French) fourastie-sauvy.org bibliographie fourastie
The information on this page is partially translated from the equivalent page in French fr:Jean Fourastié licensed under the Creative Commons/Attribution Sharealike . History of contributions can be checked here:
External links
- Comité Jean Fourastié (in French)
- J. Fourastié (1994), Jean Fourastié entre Deux Mondes: Mémoires en Forme de Dialogues avec sa Fille Jacqueline (Posthumuous book in collaboration with J. Fourastié and B. Bazil), Beauchesne Edteur, Paris
- G.J. Hospers (2003), Fourastié’s foresight after fifty years, Foresight: The Journal of Future Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy, 5 (2), pp. 11–14