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3 - Curing the Thermometer: Price Controls and the Black Market

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2023

Kenneth Mouré
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University of Alberta
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Surveys how the French office known as the Contrôle économique was created for price controls and then charged with maintaining fixed prices in markets and suppressing the black market. The chapter then provides a critical evaluation of the control strategies for enforcement and their failure to contain black- market growth during the years of Occupation or to retain the initial popular support essential for having state controls work.

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Marché Noir
The Economy of Survival in Second World War France
, pp. 37 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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