The Monetary ConservativeOne of the twentieth century's most prescient critics of the role of the U. S. dollar in the global economy, Jacques Rueff (18961978) was also one of Europe's foremost free market thinkers, a proponent of the gold standard, and a major expert on the perils of inflation. In Rueff's day, moderate conservatism was linked with liberal political economy, and Rueff considered himself a "liberal" in the sense that he believed in the free market. This first