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Jacques AttaliJacques Attali (born 1943) is a French economist and scholar. From 1981 to 1991, he was a French presidential adviser as a part of the country's socialist experiment. 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. 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.
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