- Groupe X-Crise
The Groupe X-Crise (or "X-Crise") was a French technocratic movement created in 1931 as an aftermath of the 1929 Wall Street stock market crash and the
Great Depression . Formed by former students of theÉcole Polytechnique (nicknamed "X"), it advocated "planisme ", or economic planification, as opposed to the then dominant ideology ofclassical liberalism which they held to have failed. Their ideas would not be put into practice until the Vichy era, when many technocrats seized the opportunity to reconstruct France. However, many members of the group joined the Resistance and opposed the Vichy regime, ultimately participating in the post-war administration. "X-Crise" was founded byGérard Bardet andAndré Loizillon , and its members includedRaymond Abellio ,Louis Vallon ,Jean Coutrot ,Jules Moch andAlfred Sauvy , who as head of theINED demographic institute after World War II coined the term "Third World ".Bibliography
*fr icon X-Crise (Centre polytechnicien d'études économiques), "De la récurrence des crises économiques. Son cinquantenaire (1931-1981)",
Economica ,1982 See also
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Non-conformists of the 1930s
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