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Jacques Rueff was born in Paris in 1896 and, as an economist and policy adviser, had a strong influence on France's economic and monetary policy. Helene Lieser worked in Paris from 1948 to 1962.
Jacques Rueff was born here in 1896. After studying mathematics and economics at the École Polytechnique, he had a strong influence, as an economist and policy adviser, on France's economic and monetary policy, until he died in his native city in 1978. Helene Lieser worked in Paris from 1948 to 1962. Here she was an associate of Sir George Donald Alastair MacDougall (1912–2004), director of the economic secretariat of the "Organisation for European Economic Co-operation" (OEEC), and from 1949 secretary-general of the "International Economic Association / Association Internationale des Sciences Économiques", officially founded in 1950 at the initiative of UNESCO.
