"Mired in bureaucracy, irresponsibility, and the mediocrity of its elites": After Publishing a Book on France, Sébastien Laye to Be Ambassador at an AI Conference in Miami

 

Invited to an Atlantico interview, Sébastien Laye explains that his new book is "the chronicle of a country which has let itself be trapped by a technocracy without a compass." 

Des moutons menés par des ânes ? was reviewed by Boulevard Voltaire — in which Jean de Lacoste called it a "brilliant indictment of our out-of-touch élites" — and by la Revue Économique de France; 

Published by Valeurs Ajoutées, Des moutons menés par des ânes ? [Sheep Led by Donkeys?] is a vigorous pamphlet by the French-American economist and entrepreneur Sébastien Laye. Behind this provocative title, the author delivers an uncompromising diagnosis of contemporary France, which he considers mired in bureaucracy, irresponsibility, and the mediocrity of its elites. 

A brutal assessment of French decline 

Sébastien Laye begins with a stark observation: France is sinking into decline, trapped by a rigid and inefficient state system. He denounces the technostructure which, according to the author, has sacrificed industry, energy, and real estate on the altar of an administrative and conformist ideology. 

Apart from that, Sébastien Laye has written an article for the Washington Examiner, Wealth in the Age of AI (Hedge or Harness?). He will serve as both speaker and ambassador at the Family Offices Summit in Miami on November 19-20.