Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jacques 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 1941 Rueff was dismissed from his office as the deputy 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.