Jacques Attali (born 1943) is a Frencheconomist and scholar. From 1981 to 1991, he was a French presidential adviser as a part of the country's socialist experiment. 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... An economist is someone who studies Economics. ... The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ...
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. He was forced to leave this position in July 1993 following a major scandal.
Attali is perhaps best known in America as the author of Noise: The Political Economy of Music, ISBN 0816612870, which bears a foreward by Frederic Jameson and afterward by Susan McClary. Fredric Jameson (b. ... Susan McClary is a musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the New Musicology. She is noted for her work combining musicology and feminism. ...
Bibliography
Cannibalism and Civilization: Life and Death in the History of Medicine (1984)
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985) Translated by Brian Massumi. Foreward by Frederic Jameson, afterward by Susan McClary. ISBN 0816612870.
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.
Fredric Jameson (b. ... Susan McClary is a musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the New Musicology. She is noted for her work combining musicology and feminism. ...
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When JacquesAttali's spectacular book Noise: The Political Economy of Music was first published in translation by the University of Minnesota in 1985 (as volume 16 in its "Theory and History of Literature" series) -- and every time the book was reprinted, which happened five times between 1985 and 1996 -- it came carefully wrapped.
For Censor -- and for JacquesAttali, as well -- the trick is (once again) extricating the elite from the ranks of the poor, but without incriminating the "justice" that is meted out to the poor under this fundamental law, which must remained unchallenged.
Hear me well [Attali writes]: composition is not the same as material abundance, that petit-bourgeois vision of atrophied communism having no other goal than the extension of the bourgeois spectacle to all of the proletariat.
JacquesAttali, the French futurist and founding president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, now heads PlaNet Finance in Paris.
JacquesAttali: The discovery of new technologies is like the discovery of new continents: We may one day approach a moment where the new world will take control of the old one.
Attali: The motor of history will be the contradiction between selfishness, as embodied in the quest for freedom and equality, and altruism, as embodied in the quest for brotherhood.
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