Jean Fourastié
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| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Economy - Sociology |
| Alma mater | École Centrale Paris - École Libre des Sciences Politiques |
| Notable awards | Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit |
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Jean Fourastié (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fuʁastje]; 1 April 1907 in Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nièvre - 25 July 1990 in Douelle, Lot) was a French economist, notable for having coined the expression Trente Glorieuses ("the glorious thirty [years]") to describe the period of prosperity that France experienced from the end of World War II until the 1973 oil crisis (1945-1973).
Fourastié received his elementary and secondary education at the private Catholic College of Juilly from 1914 to 1925. In 1930, he graduated from the prestigious École Centrale Paris, and in 1933 received a degree from the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. In 1936, he received a doctor of law degree. Following his studies, he entered the civil service as a tax official until 1951.
In 1941, he headed the insurance program at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM).
Following the war, he began his career as an economic advisor, with a strong liberal, pro-European stance, while at the same time becoming one of the most recognized academic experts on industrial society.
In 1945, Jean Monnet—often regarded as the father of the European Union—asked Fourastié to serve as an economic advisor on the Commissariat général du Plan, a body of domestic policy experts under the authority of the Prime Minister of France. He served four terms as president of the workforce modernization commission, and in 1961 he was chosen as a member of the "1985 working group" of the commissariat.
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