The Political Economy of Interwar Foreign Investment

France was interwar Poland's main ally, and the biggest source of the country's foreign investment. In the 1930s dissenting voices compared French actions in Poland to imperialism and colonial expansion. The book untangles the complex mix of economics, policy, and politics in Franco-Polish relations.

Autorentext

Jerzy azor, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, and a former research fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena, Germany. He writes on 20th-century economic and business history in Central and Eastern Europe, concentrating on capital flows and centre-periphery relations.

Klappentext

France was interwar Poland's main ally, and the biggest source of the country's foreign investment. In the 1930s dissenting voices compared French actions in Poland to imperialism and colonial expansion. The book untangles the complex mix of economics, policy, and politics in Franco-Polish relations.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Interwar Poland and French capital: Economic development in a hierarchical world Chapter 2. Profits and costs of alliance: Mechanisms of Franco-Polish interwar economic relations Chapter 3. French companies in interwar Poland: Distribution, results, and economic environment Chapter 4. French capital in interwar Polish state-led modernization: Infrastructure and high technology Chapter 5. French capital in interwar Polish resource extraction: Coal, oil, and security policy Chapter 6. Politicizing investment: Private-public mixed companies with French capital in interwar Poland Chapter 7. Foreign investment and domestic politics in interwar Poland: The case of French capital in yrardów Conclusions