Jacques Attali

Jacques Attali (born 1 November 1943 in Algiers, Algeria) is a French economist and scholar. From 1981 to 1991, he was an advisor to President François Mitterand.

In 1998 Attali founded the French non-profit organization PlaNet Finance which focuses on microfinance.

In April 1991 he became the first President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the financial institution established by western governments to assist the countries of eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union in their transition to democratic market economies.

Attali is perhaps best known in America as the author of "", ISBN 0-8166-1287-0, which bears a foreword by Fredric Jameson and afterword by Susan McClary.

Bibliography

*"Cannibalism and Civilization: Life and Death in the History of Medicine" (1984)
*"" (1985) Translated by Brian Massumi. Foreword by Fredric Jameson, afterword by Susan McClary. ISBN 0-8166-1287-0.
*"A man of influence: The extraordinary career of S.G. Warburg" (1987)
*"Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming Order" (1992)
*"Labyrinth in Culture and Society: Pathways to Wisdom" (1999) Translated by Joseph Rowe.
*"A Brief History of the Future" (2006) - original title: Une Brève histoire de l'avenir

ee also

*Social innovation
*Sound culture
*PlaNet Finance

External links

* [http://www.attali.com/ Jacques Attali's home page]
* [http://www.notbored.org/attali.html NotBored.org: Jacques Attali's Noise] Takes a critical stance on Attali's class position.
* [http://www.vibrofiles.com/essays_attali.php/ Jacques Attali interviewed by Angus Carlyle]
* [http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/aesthetics%20of%20music/attali'snoise.htm Outline of Jacques Attali, Noise]
* [http://nextmodernitylibrary.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/02/13/une-breve-histoire-de-l-avenir.html Jacques Attali, a video interview by Denis Failly around his last book "Une brève histoire de l'avenir"]