Les économistes font-ils l'économie ferroviaire ?. Maurice Allais, la « théorie du rendement social » et les premières restructurations de la SNCF

Jean Finez

Revue française de socio-Economie, 2013, vol. n° 11, issue 1, 15-34

Abstract: We seek to determine the influence of economists on the restructuring of the French railway sector during the post-war decades. We focus more specifically on Maurice Allais? so-called theory of social return, which played a key role in the reconstruction of the national railway but cannot alone account for it. This leads us to reconsider the mechanisms underlying an economist?s power of influence, and also to reassess the weight of structures, social relations and power struggles in the railway economy transformations that occurred during the ?Trente Glorieuses?.

Keywords: symbolic power; economic theory; market competition; national state-owned company; railway sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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