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Jacques Attali (born November 1, 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 Noise: The Political Economy of Music, ISBN 0-8166-1287-0, which bears a foreword by Fredric Jameson and afterward by Susan McClary.

Bibliography

• Cannibalism and Civilization: Life and Death in the History of Medicine (1984)
• Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985) Translated by Brian Massumi. Foreword by Fredric Jameson, afterward 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.

See also

• Social innovation
• Sound culture
• PlaNet Finance

External links

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• Jacques Attali\'s home page
• NotBored.org: Jacques Attali\'s Noise Takes a critical stance on Attali\'s class position.
• Jacques Attali interviewed by Angus Carlyle
• Outline of Jacques Attali, Noise
• Jacques Attali, a video interview by Denis Failly around his last book "Une brève histoire de l\'avenir"

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