Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the

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Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

A passionate account of how the gulf between Franceâ€™s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart
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Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an â€œAmerican societyâ€â€”one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economyâ€™s winners and losers in todayâ€™s France has replaced the old leftâ€ â€˜right split, leaving many on â€œthe periphery.â€
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As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the countryâ€™s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluyâ€™s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an â€œopen societyâ€ 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.

Country	USA
Author	Christophe Guilluy
Binding	Kindle Edition
Creator	Malcolm DeBevoise
EISBN	9780300240825
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Yale University Press
Manufacturer	Yale University Press
NumberOfPages	184
PublicationDate	2019-01-08
Publisher	Yale University Press
ReleaseDate	2018-12-03
Studio	Yale University Press

Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

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