Fighting for freedom in the opinion battle.
Gustave Flaubert described himself as an “enraged liberal.” This is what liberals should be: outraged by corporations that stifle entrepreneurs, angered by close-mindedness, against a state that spies on its own citizens, and rejecting the undermining of democratic debate by almighty executive power. The opinion battle is at the core of all political victories.
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Gustave Flaubert described himself as an “enraged liberal.” This is what liberals should be: outraged by corporations that stifle entrepreneurs, angered by close-mindedness, against a state that spies on its own citizens, and rejecting the undermining of democratic debate by almighty executive power. The opinion battle is at the core of all political victories.
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Ideas need to be found and brought to the spotlight. Our role is to identify them ahead of the public debate.
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Identifying competent people, offering them an adequate working environment and allowing them access to the neccessary ressources. We are fully committed.
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Once the idea is developed and formalised as a concrete public policy proposal, the think tank's work of influencing opinion begins.
Gaspard KOENIG
Gaspard is the president and founder of GenerationLibre. He studied at Columbia and the Ecole Normale Supérieure to become a philosopher. He worked in the staff of Christine Lagarde when she was French economy minister, and then moved to London when he was hired by the EBRD. He is the author of a dozen of books.
Gaspard KOENIG
Frédéric GUIMBAL
Mr. Guimbal has been working in the automobile & aerospace manufacturing industry since graduating from the Arts et Métiers engineering school. In 2007, he founded the Fregate group, merging several aeronautic subcontracting companies. Based in the Rhone valley, the group employs some 200 workers.
Frédéric GUIMBAL
Laura-Maï GAVERIAUX
Laura-Maï is an international correspondent for both the French and Anglo-Saxon press. She studied political and analytical philosophy at the Sorbonne before working as a teacher in the French public education system, which she left to become an adventurer. Her first book, Sales Guerres, was published in 2018.
Laura-Maï GAVERIAUX
Augustin LANDIER
Graduate of ENS, fellow in mathematics and PhD in economics, Augustin Landier teaches at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). He is also a member of the Council of Economic Analysis and the author of many books, including “le Grand méchant marché [The Big Bad Market]”, with D. Thesmar (2007).
Augustin LANDIER
isabelle LANDREAU
Lawyer at the Paris Bar and doctor in law, I. Landreau practices in the law field of intellectual property and new technologies. She assists her clients in the protection and enhancement of their intangible creations and also practices as a lawyer-mediator in intellectual property.
isabelle LANDREAU
Christophe SELTZER
Christophe is a our community organizer. He coordinates a set of virtual and physical communities of hacktivists who want to put the ideas of the think tank forward through concrete actions. A graduate of ISMaPP, he leads the Students for Liberty movement in France.
Christophe SELTZER
Maxime SBAIHI
Maxime is the managing director of Generation Libre since 2018. After graduating with a Masters from ESCP Europe, City University and the Paris-Dauphine University, he worked nearly two years as an economist in the French bank Oddo BHF in Paris. En 2014, he became euro-area economist for Bloomberg in London.
Maxime SBAIHI
Thibault DANJOU
Thibault has an MBA from the University of Chicago (USA) and is currently the Director, for Asia-Pacific, of Export-Entreprises S.A. He is also an active expert with the Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission. Since the start of Generation Libre, Thibault has been its representative in the Asia-Pacific region.
Thibault DANJOU
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This anthology of the main liberal thinkers explores more than hundred of texts, thus illustrating the different school of thoughts at the very heart of the liberal philosophy.
by Alain Laurent, Vincent Valentin
In his famous « Fable of the Bees », the Dutch philosopher Bernard Mandeville takes an unique angle to analyse the role and potential benefits of corruption in a nation.
by Bernard Mandeville
Capitalism and freedom is one of the most important books ever written in economics. Milton Friedman brillantly argues that economic freedom is a prerequisite for political freedom.
by Milton Friedman
In his last masterclass at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault applies his analytical methods to dissect liberalism. This is one of the best piece of work on the history of liberalism.
by Michel Foucault
Nothing is free in the collaborative economy. This is what Jaron Lanier explains in this book which can be read as a form of criticism of the Valley and the free-of-charge myth.
by Jaron Lanier
This essay from Gaspard Koenig looks at liberalism from three key angles of French history : the French Revolution, the Vichy years and the digital revolution.
by Gaspard Koenig
Hernando de Soto has walked through the slums of the world to understand how to convert ownership rights into capital, i.e. how to use property as a leverage for wealth. A masterpiece.
by Hernando de Soto
