Jacques Rueff: Unorthodox Classical Liberal, Civil Servant, and Monetary Theorist

Gregg Samuel ()
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Gregg Samuel: American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, 01230-1000, USA

Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2022, vol. 28, issue 1, 149-166

Abstract: Jacques Rueff was a leading twentieth-century French classical liberal. Actively involved in academic life, a prominent monetary theorist, and one of the first international critics of John Maynard Keynes, Rueff played a central role in French public life and economic policy as a civil servant before World War II. A prolific author, most notably of his influential L’Ordre social (1945), Rueff was a major contributor to postwar conservative liberalism, the architect of Charles de Gaulle's economic stablization program of 1958, and the world’s foremost defender of the classic gold standard.

Keywords: Jacques Rueff; French liberalism; inflation; gold standard; classical liberalism; conservative liberalism; monetary theory; anti-Keynesianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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