Jacques de Guenin
1931–2015
Nationality: French
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
Jacques de Guenin was president of the Cercle Frédéric Bastiat which he founded in 1990. He was a graduate of the École des Mines in Paris, held a Master of Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, and served as an executive in two multinational corporations. He authored Logiques du Libéralisme.
The General Editor of Liberty Fund’s Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat, the French businessman Jacques de Guenin (1931-2015), passed away on Saturday October 24, 2015. The editor of the OLL, David M. Hart, reflects on Jacques’s contributions to the rediscovery of liberty on both sides of the Atlantic here.
- Editor: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat, in 6 Vols.
- Editor: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 1: The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics
- Editor: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 2: The Law, The State, and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850
- Editor: The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat. Vol. 3: Economic Sophisms and “What is Seen and What is Not Seen”