Economics

France’s Message for Capitalism Is Quite Simple: Adapt or Die

  • G-7 presidency aims for an overhaul to increase fairness
  • Public anger about inequality has grown since financial crisis

Yellow Vest protesters gather on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on March 16.

Photographer: Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images

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France is sounding an alarm for the world’s advanced economies: capitalism is tearing them apart.