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The Economist Presents the ‘Phoenix’

In: A Stable External Currency for Europe

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  • Jacques Riboud

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In September 1974 the Mont Pèlerin Society held its annual meeting in Brussels and the writer was asked to present the ES to the members of the Society, having already presented it to the members of the Société d’Economie Politique in Paris some months before (on 12 June). The hundred or so economists of various nationalities who were present at the meeting listened politely and with total incredulity. In an interview published the next day in L’Echo de la Bourse, Milton Friedman said: ‘The system envisaged by Jacques Riboud is an admirable one. It is well constructed and the idea is very seductive … However, I am sceptical as to the ES’s chances of success because it is an invented money and the chief characteristic of money is that it is something that develops spontaneously.’

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  • Jacques Riboud, 1991. "The Economist Presents the ‘Phoenix’," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: A Stable External Currency for Europe, chapter 8, pages 92-105, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11821-2_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11821-2_9
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