Pascal Salin is a libertarian

Libertarianism

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 French

France

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 economist

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, professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine and a specialist in public finance

Public finance

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. He is a former president of the Mont Pelerin Society

Mont Pelerin Society

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 (1994 to 1996).

Inspired by classical liberalism

Classical liberalism

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 and libertarianism, his work follows the traces of Frédéric Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat

Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He was notable for developing the important economic concept of opportunity cost.-Biography:...

, Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises

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 and Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich Hayek

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. Salin is a regular contributor to the libertarian webzine Le Québécois Libre.

Contrary to a number of libertarian thinkers, Salin opposes the idea that full-reserve banking

Full-reserve banking

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 should be enforced; he supports unregulated free banking

Free banking

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Selected bibliography

• L'ordre monétaire mondial (1982)
• La vérité sur la monnaie (1990)
• Macroéconomie (1991)
• Libre-échange et protectionnisme (1991)
• La concurrence (1995)
• L'arbitraire fiscal ou comment sortir de la crise (1996)
• Libéralisme (2000)

External links

Pascal Salin on WikibéralPascal Salin's articles published by Le Québécois LibrePascal Salin's portrait by the Mises InstitutePascal Salin publications in English