Jacques de Guenin is a
graduate of the École des Mines in
He worked for 22 years in
the oil industry (Exxon), then for 12 years in the car industry (PSA Peugeot-Citroën).
He was one of the directors of PSA before his retirement in 1993.
He has lived, worked or
travelled in fifty or so countries. But he has always remained close to his
He has stood as a (liberal)
candidate in parliamentary elections: against Henri Emmanuelli in 1993, then
against Joël Gohyeinex in 1998.
Having been taught by two
winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics, he has himself published various
works in this discipline. His favourite author is the great economist and
humanist Frédéric Bastiat, who came from the Landes and about whom he has
written numerous articles and given many talks. In 1990 he founded in the
Landes the "
He has published a book
about the sport of course landaise
entitled "Forsans de Pomarez",
and another about alterglobalism, "ATTAC
ou l'intoxication des personnes de bonne volonté".
Jacques de Guenin is the
president of the Frédéric Bastiat Circle. He is the person responsible for
writing up the accounts of the dinner-debates.
Jacques de Guenin kindly
agreed to speak at the dinner-debates held on 14 March 1992 on the subject "les conditions du
plein-emploi" (in
French only), on 4 April 1998 on the subject "Do you really know what
liberalism is?" ,
on 20 September 2003 on the subject "Mise ŕ jour américaine" .(in French only)
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