Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (L'Économie ne ment pas; published in French in 2008) is a non-fiction book by French classical liberal economist and philosopher Guy Sorman. Sorman argues that while the recent world economic recession involved serious problems, it would be a grievous mistake to use the crisis as justification to abandon free market democratic capitalism. Sorman writes that the current system has resulted in huge benefits with about a billion people worldwide lifted out of poverty. Encounter Books published the English-language version of the book on July 20, 2009. Sorman had previously authored over twenty other books on international social-economic issues such as The New Wealth of Nations (1987), The Genius of India (2000), and The Empire of Lies (2008) as well as written for City Journal, Le Figaro, and The Wall Street Journal. He also taught economics at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences from 1970 to 2000. He based this book on a French language article that City Journal published (translated into English by Ralph C. Hancock) in its Summer 2008 issue. Source: Wikipedia (en)