Bertrand de Jouvenel

About the author

Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903–1987) was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurologist whose intellectual range carried him across some of the most prestigious universities in the world. Born in Paris, he held teaching positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Yale, Chicago, Berkeley, and the Sorbonne — a transatlantic reach that reflected the broad appeal of his ideas. His work spanned political theory, economics, and the emerging discipline of futures studies, making him a distinctively versatile thinker in twentieth-century European intellectual life.