The French Challenge: What we can learn from across the Channel

 The French Challenge: What we can learn from across the Channel

Mitchell Palmer (The Whip) explains why the French economy is more successful than ours, and how we can learn lessons from them with regard to public policy.

On the face of it, the French economy should be utterly dysfunctional. Millions of manhours are lost each year to strikes: as the old joke puts it, it’s more notable when the French aren’t rioting. Burdensome regulations keep productive companies small: France has almost four times as many companies with 49 employees as 50 employees because…

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