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.