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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
Received: 2022-11-08
Accepted: 2022-11-09
Published Online: 2022-12-05
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