From his early days as a rising star in the Radical Party of the 1930s to the end of his career, Pierre Mendès France made pedagogy central to his practice as a politician. He felt the French public needed a better understanding of economics if, as a democratic Republic, the country was to meet the challenges of economic modernization after World War II. Hence, he pioneered the use in France of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)-style radio chats as Minister of National Economy in 1944-1945, a technique he would take up again as Prime Minister in 1954. He devoted much of his writing and speech-making over the course of his career to explaining economic problems and the ideas that informed the policies he advocated. As one of France’s earliest and most visible proponents of the Keynesian revolution in economic thought, Mendès France brought to this pedagogy a missionary’s sense of purpose.
He must have been elated, then, when in 1946 the newly founded École nationale d’administration (EN…
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