The reach of foreign hands? International ties, financial reforms and the French treasury (1960s-1990s)
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 4178
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3917/pox.124.0161
- Title of journal
- Politix
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 161
- Volume
- 124
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0295-2319
- Open access status
- Deposit exception
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Classic accounts of French financial reforms portrayed 1980s reforms either as determined by international constraints, or as shaped by domestic power struggles. This article examines the circuits of exchange that tied together national and international dynamics in the run-up to France’s financial reforms, with a focus on the Treasury—the department usually presented as a key actor behind the French neoliberal turn. At a time when post-war embedded finance was being contested in international financial circles, the Treasury’s new « international focus » changed the terms of domestic financial conversations in less dirigiste and more market-friendly ways.