1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Des Sciences physiques aux Sciences morales — Jacques Rueff Jacques Rueff’s 1922 essay, prefaced by C. Colson, argues that morality and political economy can be treated with the same rational discipline as geometry, mech...
Jacques Rueff, Le change, phénomène naturel (1923) Rueff’s mémoire defines exchange as a measurable natural mechanism and uses it to interpret the postwar monetary world...
Jacques Rueff, Épître aux dirigistes (4e éd., 1949) Rueff’s polemical volume brings together the Épître aux dirigistes and Le Dilemme français, applying one argument to both doctrine and postwar policy: planning, rationi...
Jacques Rueff, L’Âge de l’inflation — Summary Rueff’s collection is organized as a warning: modern political freedom depends less on declarations of rights than on monetary institutions capable of preventing demand from...
Jacques Rueff, L’Ordre social — Summary Jacques Rueff presents L’Ordre social as a general theory of social order derived from monetary analysis...
The Role and the Rule of Gold: An Argument (1965) This Princeton Essays in International Finance pamphlet is a published dialogue, introduced by Fritz Machlup, between Jacques Rueff and Fred Hirsch after de Gaulle’s Febr...
Jacques Rueff, Le lancinant problème de la balance des paiements Rueff’s book reverses the premise of the 1965 monetary debate: the United States deficit is not a problem to be solved before reforming the international m...