Pascal Salin
Pascal Salin (born May 16, 1939 in Paris ) is a French economist from the Vienna School and former university professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine . He is a past president of the Mont Pelerin Society (1994–1996). He is also adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn (Alabama) . The main focus of his research is finance and monetary theory . He is one of the most famous French representatives of the Austrian School .
Life
Salin was born in Paris on May 16, 1939. He first studied at the law faculty of the University of Bordeaux . He then pursued economic studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . After graduating, he did his doctorate and completed a degree in sociology with a license .
He began his scientific career as an assistant in Paris from 1961 to 1966. In 1967 he became maître de conférences at the Universities of Poitiers and Nantes . In 1970 he became a professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine , where he taught until 2007. He heads the Center de Recherche en Théorie Economique Jean-Baptiste Say
His students include François Guillaumat, Bertrand Lemennicier and Cécile Philippe.
He has worked as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund , the Government of Niger , the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Harvard Institute for International Development.
Between 1994 and 1996 he was President of the Mont Pelerin Society . He sits on the academic advisory board of the Liberal Institute in Zurich.
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The focus of his work lies in the areas of financial policy and monetary policy . In particular, he opposes narrow banking and defends free banking .
In addition to the French liberals, his works are mainly influenced by the Austrian School : Frédéric Bastiat , Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek . He represents minarchist and anarcho-capitalist positions, which he justifies from a natural law perspective. He strictly rejects utilitarianism .
He publishes regularly in Le Québécois Libre . His main works are La Verité sur la monnaie (1990), Macro-économie (1991), L'Arbitraire fiscal (1996), Libéralisme (2000) and Français, n'ayez pas peur du libéralisme! (2007).
In European politics he is in favor of the Bolkestein Directive . He rejects the EU constitution of 2004 .
Awards
- Knight of the Legion of Honor (1988)
- Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (2003)
- Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (1988)
- Knight des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1987)
- Prix Renaissance de l'économie for L'arbitraire fiscal (1986).
- Prix de la Liberté, Liberalni Institut Annual Award for the Contribution to the Proliferation of Liberal Thinking and Making Ideas of Liberty, Private Property, Competition and the Rule of Law Come True , Prague (2003).
bibliography
Works
- Pour quoi la capitalization pour la France . In: José Piñera (ed.): Le Taureau par les Cornes. Comment résoudre la crise des retraites . Institut Charles Coquelin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-915909-18-0 , p. 116-124 .
- Français, n'ayez pas peur du libéralisme . Odile Jacob, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7381-1962-9 .
- Presence de Jacques Rueff . Omnibus Plon, 2003, ISBN 2-259-02077-1 (in collaboration with François Bourricaud).
- Libre-échange . In: Que sais-je? , n ° 3636 . Presses Universitaires de France , Paris 2002, ISBN 2-13-052750-7 .
- Libéralisme . Odile Jacob, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7381-0809-1 .
- L'Arbitraire fiscal - ou comment sortir de la crise . Slatkine, 1996, ISBN 2-05-101486-8 .
- La concurrence . In: Que sais je? n ° . Presses Universitaires de France , Paris 1995, ISBN 2-13-046677-X .
- Libre-échange et protectionnism . In: Que sais-je?, N ° 1032 . Presses Universitaires de France , Paris 1991, ISBN 2-13-044007-X .
- Macroeconomy . Presses Universitaires de France , Paris 1991, ISBN 2-13-043530-0 .
- La vérité sur la monnaie . Odile Jacob, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-7381-0098-8 .
- L'arbitraire fiscal . Robert Laffont, 1989, ISBN 2-221-04845-8 .
- L'ordre monétaire mondial . Presses Universitaires de France , Paris 1982, ISBN 2-13-037381-X .
- The unit monétaire au profit de qui? Economica, Paris 1980 (with a foreword by Friedrich von Hayek ).
- with Georges Lane : Inflation in France . In: LB Krause, WS Salant (Ed.): Worldwide Inflation Theory and Recent Experience . The Brookings Institution, Washington DC 1977, ISBN 0-8157-5029-3 , pp. 545-587 .
- Optica Report 1976: Inflation and Exchange Rates Evidence and Policy Guidelines for the European Community . Commission of European Communities, February 10, 1977.
- with Marc Giboin and Jean-Dominique Lafay: Le Franc contre l'expansion . Cujas, Paris 1969.
- A contribution à la théorie du income permanent . Presses Universitaires de France , Paris 1965.
Festschriften
- Mathieu Laine , Jörg Guido Hülsmann (eds.): L'homme libre: Mélanges en l'honneur de Pascal Salin . Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-251-44314-2 .
Web links
- Center de Recherche en théorie économique Jean-Baptiste Say
- Texts by Pascal Salin on Catallaxia
- C'est l'Etat qui est sauvage, pas le libéralisme. ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) Interview with Pascal Salin. In: Le Figaro Magazine . September 16, 2000.
- L'Art de la liberté. ( Memento from October 25, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) Interview.
- Non, la pensée unique n'est pas néolibérale. ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the web archive archive.today )
- Portrait of Pascal Salin of the Mises Institute by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Guido Hülsmann : Pascal Salin: Gentleman, Economist, Radical .
- ↑ Homepage of the Center de Recherche en Théorie Economique Jean-Baptiste Say ( Memento of the original of May 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Libéralisme . Odile Jacob, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7381-0809-1 , pp. 33 ff .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salin, Pascal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |