The Institut Coppet is an association, which aims to disseminate translations of books, excerpts or articles on culture and the free market in the French tradition.

The “Groupe de Coppet”, led by Madame de Stael and Benjamin Constant was at the dawn of the nineteenth century, the first European think-tank dedicated to the study of freedom in all its forms. His work focused on the problems of establishing a limited constitutional government, the issue of free trade, imperialism and French colonialism, the history of the French Revolution and Napoleon, on free speech, education, culture, the rise of socialism and the welfare state.

The free market has often been wrongly conceived as a phenomenon mainly Anglo-Saxon. This philosophy of freedom has very ancient roots, but it has undergone in France a particularly original development. Unlike English, the French warrant freedom from the natural rights rather than utilitarianism. They defend free trade in the form of laissez faire capitalism. They were primary opponents of collectivist, interventionist and protectionist ideas. Historically the French School prefigures the modern Austrian School.

The Institut Coppet, two centuries after the illustrious “Groupe de Coppet”, wants help to awareness those great precursors. This work of archeology and dissemination, including the use of translation studies or articles in the American institutes and think-tank were French intellectual tradition continues to live and grow. Through the Austrian School in particular, many studies have focused, in the last 40 years, on Turgot, Condillac, Destutt de Tracy, Say, Constant, Bastiat and Molinari. Hope that these thinkers of freedom continue to inspire the intellect and the French culture.

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