 Conventionalism and liberalism in Jacques Rueff's early works (1922 to 1929)Ludovic Frobert The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010, vol. 17, issue 3, 439-470 Abstract: From the early 1920s, the French economist Jacques Rueff (1896 to 1978) aimed to reconstruct liberalism on new and modern foundations in order to meet the new challenges faced by capitalism. In this perspective, he presented in 1922 his own discourse on economic method, and a few months later presented his first economic analysis on money, unemployment and international trade. Rueff asserted that his methodology and the philosophical foundations on which it was built - Henri Poincare's Conventionalism - supported his theory and doctrine. It is the purpose of this paper, focused on the 1922 to 1929 period, first to study Rueff's methodology, theory and doctrine, and second to examine the problematic relations (Methodology → Theory → Doctrine) between these three levels of his first intellectual project. Keywords: Jacques Rueff; Conventionalism; liberalism; French economic engineers (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:17:y:2010:i:3:p:439-470 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/09672560903204957 Access Statistics for this article The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought is currently edited by José Luís Cardoso More articles in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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