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, he publishes around the world in more than 30 newspapers and magazines. He also writes frequently for the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal.

Sorman has authored over 20 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 the forthcoming Economics Does Not Lie. In 1975, he founded the Editions Sorman publishing company.

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 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.

 

Articles/Op-eds

• 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
• Earthquakes and the Mandate of Heaven, Wall Street Journal, 05-17-08
• The Real Che Guevara, Project Syndicate, January 2009
• How Sarkozy lost France, The Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2008

Books

• Economics doesn’t lie, 2008
• The Empire of lies, The truth about China, 2006
• 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

City Journal articles

• Swimsuit Issue, Autumn 2009
• Communism’s Defeat, 20 Years Later, 6 November 2009
• Lévi-Strauss, New Yorker, 6 November 2009
• How to Liberate an Economy, 21 October 2009
• Paris to New York, 2 October 2009
• Economics Still Doesn’t Lie, 25 September 2009
• Death of a Humanist, 14 September 2009
• Paying for Le Treatment, 24 August 2009
• In Memoriam: Rose Friedman, 20 August 2009
• Wild Randomness, Summer 2009
• More City Journal Articles