Jean Fourastié

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Jean Fourastié
Université de Paris
AwardsGrand Cross of the National Order of Merit, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur
Scientific career
FieldsEconomy - Sociology - philosophia
Thesis Le contrôle de l'Etat sur les Sociétés d'Assurance  (1936)
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Jean Fourastié (French pronunciation:

public intellectual. He 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.[1][2]

Biography

Jean Fourastié received his elementary and secondary education at the

doctor of law In 1937 with a thesis on insurance supervision.[3]

In 1932, Fourastié successfully passed the examination to become an insurance supervisor for the French state (

French Labor Ministry.[4]: 6  He was instrumental in the adoption on 28 July 1939 of a mandatory accounting framework for insurance companies, France's first-ever attempt at accounting standard-setting.[3] He would stay in the civil service
until 1951.

During

Plan Comptable Général), itself largely modeled on the German accounting framework of 1937 championed by Hermann Göring. In September–October 1944, the ad hoc body that investigated acts of collaboration (French: commission d'épuration du ministère des Finances) cleared Fourastié of any charges, following a process in which Malinski defended Fourastié's innocence.[3]

Fourastié then taught at the newly created

Commissariat général du Plan, serving the country's economic reconstruction under the direct 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.

In 1948, Fourastié became vice president of the scientific and technical committee of the European Economic Cooperation Organization (predecessor of 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
.

Fournastié was a professor at the

CNAM
.

In 1966, Fourastié became a columnist for the daily newspaper Le Figaro. Until 1968 he presented the monthly program "Quart d'heure" ("quarter hour") on French state television.

In 1968, he was elected to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, and became its president in 1978. In 1981, he was named president of the central administrative commission of the Institut de France.[6]

Publications

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Jean Fourastie Is Dead; French Economist, 83". The New York Times. 29 July 1990.
  2. JSTOR 2137754
  3. ^ a b c d Régis Boulat (2010), "Jean Fourastié, un expert en comptabilité", Comptabilité(s), 1/2010
  4. ^ a b c d Olivier Dard (Spring 2004), "Fourastié avant Fourastié: La construction d'une légitimité d'expert", French Politics, Culture & Society, 22:1, Berghahn Books: 1–22
  5. ^ EHESS
  6. ^ (in French) asmp.fr
  7. ^ Google Scholar, Branko Milanovic, "Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality", Prologue. The Promise of the Twentieth Century
  8. ^ journals.cambridge.org
  9. ^ (in French) fourastie-sauvy.org, Jean Louis Harouel, Les 40 000 heures : préface
  10. ^ (in French) fourastie-sauvy.org bibliographie fourastie

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