Le plan dans l'économie française

The « décline of the plan », denounced in 1982, calls for reflection on the value and the conséquences of this judgement. The history of the plans and of their implementation since 1947 reveals the positive impact they had on the period of reconstruction and on the growth of the French economy. But the plans slowly lost their capacity for coordination and choice. The priority given by authorities to the short over the médium term contributed to the change. The internationalization of French économie life was also responsible, for the plans were ill adapted to it. The author suggests a renewal of planning procédure which would avoid the end of planning.