Jacques Rueff

Jacques Léon Rueff (23 August 1896 – 23 April 1978) was a French economist and adviser to the French Government.

An influential French conservative and free market thinker, Rueff was born the son of a well known Parisian physician and studied economics and mathematics at the École Polytechnique. An important economic advisor to French President Charles de Gaulle, Rueff was also a major figure in the management of the French economy during the Great Depression. In the early 1930s, he was as a financial attache in London, in charge of the Bank of France’s sterling reserves. In 1941 Rueff was dismissed from his office as t*******ty governor of the Bank of France as a result of the Vichy regime'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 Liberation.