[microsound] 'that's attali'

[Charles Turner]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:27:31 +0100, Damian Stewart wrote:
> David Powers wrote:
>> I'm going to jump in here and say that this book is highly ripe for
>> critique, although I haven't read it in so long that I'm not prepared
>> to do so. Nevertheless I seem to remember quite a bit of his concepts
> 
> i remember finding this http://www.notbored.org/attali.html , midway 
> through reading /Noise/, and it changed my perspective on it.


Nice to know he's not a "doctrinaire" leftist, I was pretty worried...

<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/204f5c36-c956-11dc-9807-000077b07658.html>

'I don't have a computer - I've got Jacques Attali'
By Ben Hall
Published: January 23 2008 02:00 | Last updated: January 23 2008 02:00

"I don't have a computer, I've got Jacques Attali," François 
Mitterrand, France's Socialist president, used to say of his then 
principal special adviser and confident, writes Ben Hall in Paris.

Two decades later, President Nicolas Sarkozy decided he needed some 
Attali brain-power to help solve France's economic malaise.

Mr Attali was considered a clever choice, not least because the 
64-year-old economist hails from the left, providing the centre-right 
president with some political cover.

But Mr Attali is no doctrinaire leftist - and has even been tipped as a 
possible minister in Mr Sarkozy's government.
A product of France's elite education system for public servants, he is 
part of the French cross-party nexus of business, finance and 
government.

He has also worked as an academic economist and was the founding 
president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 
though later stood down over allegations of mismanagement.

He is now a business consultant, runs a micro-finance firm and is a 
blogger and prolific author, on subjects ranging from the life of 
Ghandi to music and futurology.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009