ABSTRACT
One of the most significant structural changes in the the French economy since the 1970s has been its ever-greater integration into the global market, and especially into the European economic space. This concerns not only trade in manufactured goods or in services, but also investment and financial flows, the internationalization of large companies and, increasingly, the very fabric of economic regulation. Economic regulation is increasingly influenced by transnational institutions such as the European Central Bank, and by the loose collections of international corporations, financial institutions and markets.
