An Optimist’s Diary: A Philosophical Economist Observes Our World

Guy Sorman was born in France in 1944 and studied at the University of Paris. At twenty-five, he started teaching economics in this same university and as a visiting professor abroad, mainly in the USA and Latin America. Over the last forty years he has written numerous columns for French and other newspapers around the world, attended a large number of conferences, and has published eighteen books in French, which have been translated in more than a dozen different languages. He is currently a member of the French National Commission for Human Rights, a member of the Indo-French forum, and the founder and honorary president of Action against Hunger. He lives in Paris with his wife and four daughters.