Jacques Attali

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Jacques Attali (born November 1, 1943 in in Algiers, Algeria) is a French economist and scholar. From 1981 to 1991, he was a French presidential adviser as a part of the country's socialist government.

Attali is best known in America as the author of Noise: The Political Economy of Music, ISBN 0-8166-1287-0, which bears a foreword by Frederic 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, afterword by Susan McClary. University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0-8166-1287-0.
"A man of influence: Le destin d'un homme d'influence 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. North Atlantic Books ISBN 1556432658
Fraternités (1999) ISBN 8449309778
Karl Marx or the thought of the world (2005) - original title: Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde

C'était François Mitterrand (2005) Fayard
A Brief History of the Future (2006) Arcade Publishing ISBN 1559708794 - original title: Une Brève histoire de l'avenir
La crise, et après ? (2008) Fayard ISBN 2213643075