Did France's Colonial Empire Make Economic Sense? A Perspective from the Postwar Decade, 1946–1956

Edward Peter Fitzgerald

The Journal of Economic History, 1988, vol. 48, issue 2, 373-385

Abstract: Aggregate trade data appear to support the mercantilist position that colonial markets were very important for the French economy after 1945. After summarizing and then criticizing arguments based on these data, this article concludes that the economic utility of the empire to France was in fact more spurious than real.

Date: 1988
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