April 04, 2004

France. "French dirigisme is saved from the utter disaster that Americans often predict for it by the relentless intellectual elitism of its educational system .. The famous grandes écoles are designed to produce a competent, if arrogant, elite, who are destined from their early adulthood to control everything from politics to telecommunications .. ". From a review of the book Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong : Why We Love France but Not the French Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack