The monetary conservative : Jacques Rueff and twentieth-century free market thought /
Christopher S. Chivvis.
- DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.
- xiv, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The engineer economist -- The failure of postwar reconstruction -- Rueff and French economic strategy during the Depression -- The crisis of liberalism and the future of liberal capitalism in the 1930s -- L'ordre social and the war -- Reconstruction and inflation -- Keynes, the postwar "age of inflation," and European integration -- De Gaulle, the 1958 reform, and the franc nouveau -- De Gaulle, gold, and the dollar -- Conclusion: Rueff and monetary conservatism in twentieth-century perspective.