Mathieu Laine

Mathieu Laine, born in 1975, is a French entrepreneur and intellectual.^[1][2] Close to Emmanuel Macron and François Fillon,^[3] he heads the company Altermind. He co-heads with Emile Servan-Schreiber, Hypermind, a prediction market company. Author of many essays on liberalism, he teaches Economics and Political Philosophy at Sciences Po in Paris. He currently lives in London.

Biography

Trained as a lawyer (Master in Business Law from University Paris II Panthéon-Assas) and a graduate from Science Po, Mathieu Laine first taught Business Law at Paris II then Private law at Sciences Po, where he now conducts the « Introduction to Liberal Philosophy » course.^[4] By the end of 2007, he founded the strategy consultancy firm, Altermind.^[5] He moved to London in 2014 and launched the English office of Altermind, Altermind UK. In 2015, with Emile Servan-Schreiber, he co-founded Hypermind, a prediction market company.^[6]

Essayist, he is an editorial writer for the French magazines Le Point and Challenges.

He is married to the daughter of the French billionaire Philippe Foriel-Destezet.

Publications

After working for Alain Madelin between 18 and 21 years-old, he ran the Turgot Institute. He was then appointed member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Economic Freedom and Social Progress in 2005.^[7]

He regularly publishes liberal-oriented opinions in the French press such as Le Point, Challenges, Le Figaro, Le Monde, L'Express ou Les Echos. From 2007 to 2010, he held the weekly column « Vrai Faux ? » which later became « C’est pourtant vrai !» in Le Figaro Magazine. He also contributed to the magazine L’Opinion on its launch year.

In 2006, he published La Grande nurserie : en finir avec l’infantilisation des Français ^[8] (pocket edition, expanded in 2010) where he denounces^[9] the « nanny State »^[10] and calls for a society founded on freedom, responsibility and trust versus a society based on control and regulations.

In 2009, he published Post-politique,^[11] Edgar Faure Award as best political essay.^[12]

In 2012, he headed the publication of the Dictionnaire du Libéralisme by Editions Larousse.^[13] This book has been honored with the award « prix Édouard-Bonnefous » of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. Mathieu Laine mobilized 63 economists, lawyers, philosophers, sociologists, psychiatrists, historians to contribute to this dictionary, for the purpose of presenting « for the first time a complete overview of liberalism », allowing the readers to « discover, behind the word « liberal », a large range of schools and views ».^[14][15][16]

In 2013, Mathieu Laine signed La France Adolescente with Patrice Huerre, a psychiatrist specialized in adolescence, published by Editions JC Lattès.^[17][18]

In January 2016, Mathieu Laine published the Dictionnaire amoureux de la liberté,^{[19][20][21][22]} a genuine ode to freedom in all its forms, notably in literature, philosophy, music and painting.^[23]

In October 2016, he wrote the foreword of the Discours (« Speeches ») of Margaret Thatcher in French (Editions Les Belles Lettres).^[24]

Bibliography

• Discours of Margaret Thatcher in French, Editions Les Belles Lettres, 2016, 560 p. (978-2-251-39909-6)
• Dictionnaire amoureux de la liberté, Editions Plon, 2016, 848 p. (ISBN 978-2-259-22146-7)^[25]
• La France adolescente, in collaboration with Patrice Huerre, Editions J-C Lattès, 2013, 260 p. (ISBN 978-2709638043)
• Le dictionnaire du libéralisme, led by Mathieu Laine, Editions Larousse, « À présent » collection, 2012, 640 p. (ISBN 978-2-03-584185-8)
• Post politique, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2009. (ISBN 9782709630016) (Political literature Edgar-Faure Award - 2009)
• La France est foutue, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2007, 131 p. ISBN 2709629232 ^[26]
• La Grande Nurserie : En finir avec l'infantilisation des Français, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, 2006 ISBN 2709625059
• L'homme libre : Mélanges en l'honneur de Pascal Salin, Mathieu Laine & Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Les Belles Lettres, 2006, 529 p. ISBN 2251443142

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