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

Samuel Gregg

doi:10.1515/jeeh-2022-0020

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

Samuel Gregg

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From the journal Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines Volume 28 Issue 1

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

Corresponding author: Samuel Gregg, D.Phil. (Oxon.), Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and Senior Research Faculty, American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, 01230-1000, USA, E-mail: samuel.gregg@aier.org

Received: 2022-11-08

Accepted: 2022-11-09

Published Online: 2022-12-05

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Jacques Rueff; French liberalism; inflation; gold standard; classical liberalism; conservative liberalism; monetary theory; anti-Keynesianism