2. The Overdraft Economy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Dilemmas of the 1970s 18
6. 2. The Overdraft Economy 55
7. 3. U.S. Hegemony and Moral Hazard 76
8. 4. The Birth of the Overdraft Economy 97
9. 5. The Institutionalization of the Overdraft Economy under the Fourth Republic 136
10. 6. Reform and Resistance of the Overdraft Economy under Charles de Gaulle 160
11. 7. U.S. Hegemonic Decline and Crisis in France 183
12. 8. Socialist Government and Capitalist Reform 214
13. 9. France and the European Monetary System 241
14. Conclusion 266
15. Index 309
16. Cornell Studies in Political Economy 315