Book contents
- Marché Noir
- Marché Noir
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Terms
- 1 The Black Market in Wartime France
- 2 L’économie de misère
- 3 Curing the Thermometer: Price Controls and the Black Market
- 4 La terre, elle, ne ment pas: Agriculture and the Black Market
- 5 Market Forces: Industry and Commerce
- 6 Consumers in a World of Scarce Goods
- 7 Illegality Normalized
- 8 Liberating Markets and Consumers
- 9 Justice for les profiteurs de la misère publique
- 10 Black Markets in Wartime
- Select Bibliography
- Index
5 - Market Forces: Industry and Commerce
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2023
Book contents
- Marché Noir
- Marché Noir
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Terms
- 1 The Black Market in Wartime France
- 2 L’économie de misère
- 3 Curing the Thermometer: Price Controls and the Black Market
- 4 La terre, elle, ne ment pas: Agriculture and the Black Market
- 5 Market Forces: Industry and Commerce
- 6 Consumers in a World of Scarce Goods
- 7 Illegality Normalized
- 8 Liberating Markets and Consumers
- 9 Justice for les profiteurs de la misère publique
- 10 Black Markets in Wartime
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter considers supply-side behaviour and commerce: how producers obtained essential raw materials needed to manufacture goods, and sold or exchanged their output on the black market. It also explores how retailers obtained goods to replenish their stock; how and why black-market restaurants thrived; and the importance of middlemen, using the extreme cases of two most infamous black-market billionaires, Joseph Joanovici and Michel Szkolnikoff.
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- Marché NoirThe Economy of Survival in Second World War France, pp. 96 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023