Jacques Rueff
Jacques Rueff | |
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Rainier III | |
Preceded by | Pierre Blanchy (acting) |
Succeeded by | Pierre Voizard |
Personal details | |
Born | Jacques Léon Rueff 23 August 1896 Paris, France |
Died | 23 April 1978 Paris, France | (aged 81)
Political party | Independent |
Jacques Léon Rueff (23 August 1896 – 23 April 1978) was a French
Life
An influential French
He was a member of the Société d'Économie Politique and was linked to the Éditions de Médicis.[3] He also taught at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in the 1930s.
In 1941, Rueff, a Jew, was dismissed from his office as the deputy governor of the Bank of France as a result of Vichy France's new anti-Semitic laws. Rueff published several works of political economy and philosophy during his lifetime, including L'Ordre Social, which appeared shortly after the Liberation of Paris. After the war Rueff became one of the leading French members of the classical liberal Mont Pelerin Society, the president of the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency (IARA), and the minister of state of Monaco. He was strongly in favour of European integration and served from 1952 to 1962 as a judge on the European Court of Justice.
He advised President
In the 1960s, Rueff became a major proponent of a return to the
Rueff always remained a firm opponent of John Maynard Keynes. His first critique appeared in the Economics Journal, on the issue of transfers; specifically, German war reparations. Rueff was against such transfers in the late 1930s.
In 1947, he critiqued Keynes' magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. In 1958, US economist James Tobin became his main critic in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Almost 30 years later, Rueff, repeated his beliefs in "The End of the Keynesian Era", which was first published in Le Monde.
Bibliography
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Articles in journals
- "L'assurance-chômage, cause du chômage permanent". Revue d'économie politique (in French). XLV. Paris: Librairie du Recueil Sirey: 211–251. January–February 1931. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- Rueff, Jacques (1929). "Les idées de M. Keynes sur le problème des transferts". Revue d'économie politique (in French). XLIII. Paris: Librairie du Recueil Sirey: 1067–1081. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- Rueff, Jacques (May 1947). "The Fallacies of Lord Keynes General Theory". JSTOR 1879560.
- Rueff, Jacques (November 1948). "The Fallacies of Lord Keynes' General Theory: Reply". JSTOR 1883471.
- JSTOR 1883470.
Books
- Chivvis, Christopher S. (2010). The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and 20th Century Free Market Thought. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
- Rueff, Jacques (1972). The Monetary Sin of the West. Translated by Roger Glémet. New York: The Macmillan Company. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- Rueff, Jacques (1965). The Role and the Rule of Gold. International Finance Section 47. Princeton University.
Reports
- Rueff, Jacques; Armand, Louis (1960). Premier ministre (ed.). Les obstacles à l'expansion économique (in French). Rapport présenté par le Comité institué par décret n°59-1284 du 13 novembre 1959. Paris. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
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See also
References
- ^ Benko, Ralph (16 July 2012). "Who Is The Most Important Economist Of The 20th Century?". Forbes. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- SSRN 2173443
- ^ François Denord (2001), "The Origins of Neoliberalism in France: Louis Rougier and the 1938 Walter Lippmann Conference", Le Mouvement Social, 2 (195), retrieved 18 August 2017
External links
- "Jacques Léon Rueff". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- "Jacques RUEFF (1896-1978)". Académie française (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- Works by or about Jacques Rueff at Internet Archive