1st Edition

The Political Economy of Interwar Foreign Investment Economic Nationalism and French Capital in Poland, 1918–1939

By Jerzy Łazor Copyright 2024
200 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

France was interwar Poland’s main ally, and the biggest source of the country’s foreign investment. The two roles were closely connected: Paris used its position in Warsaw to win preferential treatment for its firms, while Polish authorities depended on France to finance their modernization policies and military spending. The relationship’s asymmetric character bred conflict, and in the 1930s... Read more

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 Żyrardów  Conclusions

Biography

Jerzy Łazor, 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.