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Twilight of the Elites

Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

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A passionate account of how the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart
 
Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the old left‑right split, leaving many on “the periphery.”
 
As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an “open society” in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.
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Authors:
Guilluy, Christophe
Year Published:
2020
Country of Publication:
United States
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780300248425
Number of Pages:
192
Publication Date:
28/04/2020
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Language:
English
SKU:
9780300248425

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