Book contents
- Marché Noir
- Marché Noir
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Terms
- 1 The Black Market in Wartime France
- 2 L’économie de misère
- 3 Curing the Thermometer: Price Controls and the Black Market
- 4 La terre, elle, ne ment pas: Agriculture and the Black Market
- 5 Market Forces: Industry and Commerce
- 6 Consumers in a World of Scarce Goods
- 7 Illegality Normalized
- 8 Liberating Markets and Consumers
- 9 Justice for les profiteurs de la misère publique
- 10 Black Markets in Wartime
- Select Bibliography
- Index
7 - Illegality Normalized
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2023
Book contents
- Marché Noir
- Marché Noir
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Terms
- 1 The Black Market in Wartime France
- 2 L’économie de misère
- 3 Curing the Thermometer: Price Controls and the Black Market
- 4 La terre, elle, ne ment pas: Agriculture and the Black Market
- 5 Market Forces: Industry and Commerce
- 6 Consumers in a World of Scarce Goods
- 7 Illegality Normalized
- 8 Liberating Markets and Consumers
- 9 Justice for les profiteurs de la misère publique
- 10 Black Markets in Wartime
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The shortages of goods, in combination with the proliferation of new control measures that changed the terms for (licit) market transactions, fostered new opportunities for ‘economic crime’ and incentives to violate or evade the controls. This chapter analyses economic behaviour to show how illegality was normalized in accordance with everyday needs, opportunities for access to goods, and the confusion of boundaries between licit and illicit commerce. This confusion also generated alarm that France was experiencing a serious moral decline.
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- Marché NoirThe Economy of Survival in Second World War France, pp. 173 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023