Guy Sorman is a City Journal contributing editor and one of France’s leading public intellectuals. He has often written in defense of free markets and the free society in Europe. As a columnist for the New York-based Project Syndicate, his work is published in more than 100 newspapers and magazines around the world. He also writes frequently for the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal.

Sorman has authored over twenty books, several of which have been translated into English, including The New Wealth of Nations, The Genius of India, Rifaa’s Children, The Empire of Lies, and 2009’s Economics Does Not Lie. In 1975, he founded the Editions Sorman publishing company in Paris.

From 1993 to 1997, Sorman served as economic adviser to the French minister for foreign affairs, and then to the prime minister. Since 2000, he has chaired the India-France economic council. In 2008, he was appointed global advisor to Korean president Lee Myung Bak.

He is the founder and former president of Action against Hunger, a leading NGO. From 2002 to 2007, he served on the French National Commission for Human Rights. From 1995 to 2008, he was the elected deputy mayor of the city of Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, and is now chairman of the city’s economic council.

Sorman graduated from the Paris Institute of political science in 1964 and from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in 1969. He has taught economics at Paris University and also in China, Russia, Argentina, and the U.S.

Sorman has received the highest distinctions in France (Légion d’honneur), Brazil (Southern Cross), and Argentina (Order of May). He is married and has four daughters.

 

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Articles/Op-eds

• Why Europe Will Rise Again, Wall Street Journal, 08-18-12
• No More Quick Fixes, Washington Examiner, 07-27-12
• A Growing Economy Necessarily Has To Have A Destructive Side, Investor's Business Daily, 04-30-12
• How the U.S. Can Sharpen Its Innovative Edge, RealClearMarkets, 11-24-11
• Why Not A Negative Income Tax With Cash Subsidies To The Poor?, Investor's Business Daily, 01-21-11
• France's Perpetual Revolution, Wall Street Journal, 10-21-10
• Big Money Merges with Big Brother, Taipei Times, 09-26-10
• Will Business-Toxic Environment Poison Silicon Valley Innovation?, Investor's Business Daily, 04-21-10
• It's a Global Century, not an Asian Century, The Japan Times, 04-08-10
• Whether It's Greece Or The U.S., Statism Riskier Than Free Market, Investor's Business Daily, 03-22-10
• Political Justice Returns, South China Morning Post, 02-06-10
• Invasion Of The European Economists, Forbes.com, 01-18-10
• France's Swimsuit Issue, Forbes.com, 10-21-09
• Remembering Rose Friedman, Forbes.com, 08-19-09
• Wild Randomness, Forbes.com, 08-04-09
• Is Cap-And-Trade Just Political Posturing? If Not, It Could Mean Economic Suicide, Investor's Business Daily, 07-14-09
• Don't Throw Deregulation Overboard, Washington Examiner, 07-01-09
• Monetarism Defiant, Forbes.com, 04-26-09
• The Real Che Guevara, Project Syndicate, 01-15-09
• How Sarkozy Lost France, Wall Street Journal, 06-02-08
• More Articles >>

Books

• Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis, July 2009
• The Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century, April 2008
• Made in USA, 2004
• Rifaa’s children, 2003
• Progress and its enemies, 2001
• The Genius of India, 2000
• French happiness, 1995
• Expecting the Barbarians, 1992
• Exit from socialism, 1990
• The true thinkers of our times, 1989
• The new wealth of nations, 1987
• The minimal State, 1985
• The free market solution, 1984
• The American conservative revolution, 1983

Podcasts

• Guy Sorman discusses his article from the winter 2011 issue of City Journal, "Why Not a Negative Income Tax?", with Ben Plotinsky., 01-13-11
• Guy Sorman and Professor Jagdish Bhagwadi discuss free market economics and Mr. Sorman's new book, "Economics Does Not Lie", 08-17-09
• Guy Sorman and Paul Romer discuss economic growth, 08-03-09
• Guy Sorman and Dr. Rama Cont discuss the current economic crisis and the role free market principles play in its recovery, 07-27-09
• A Conversation on Free Markets, 07-20-09
• Guy Sorman and Gary Becker discuss the current economic crisis and capitalism, 07-15-09
• Brian Anderson and Guy Sorman discuss his new article "Moscow: Oil Town", 09-07-07
• More Podcasts >>

City Journal articles

• A Brief History of American Prosperity, Autumn 2012
• Where Nationalism Still Matters, 20 August 2012
• No More Quick Fixes, Summer 2012
• Paul Krugman’s Follies, 24 June 2012
• Schumpeter in the White House, Spring 2012
• An Uncommitted Socialist, 6 May 2012
• Growing Out of Poverty, 9 April 2012
• Integration, Not Ideology, 28 March 2012
• The New Rebellions, Winter 2012
• Steady As You Go, 31 January 2012
• Patently American, Autumn 2011
• The Engine of Capitalism, 28 October 2011
• Freedom to Create, 19 October 2011
• Greek Mythology, 4 October 2011
• Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism?, Summer 2011
• A Guru for All Seasons, 20 May 2011
• Good Intentions Versus Good Policies, 11 May 2011
• Japan, After March 11, Spring 2011
• Pakistan’s Dangerous Game, 2 May 2011
• Freedom and the Global Economy, 15 April 2011
• More City Journal Articles >>