About François Chesnais
Lived 1934 – 2022 (aged 88). François Chesnais was a French economist.
François Chesnais (22 January 1934 – 29 October 2022) was a French economist and scholar.
Life and career Chesnais was born in Montreal on 22 January 1934. He was a member of the Scientific Council of ATTAC-France, the author of several books and numerous articles on economics and a founder of the Marxist journal Carré Rouge.
Chesnais was a member of the New Anticapitalist Party. He died at a hospital in Paris on 29 October 2022, at the age of 88.
Books Marx's Crisis Theory Today in Christopher Freeman ed. Design, Innovation and Long Cycles in Economic Development 2nd ed. Frances Pinter, London, 1984 The globalization of capital, Paris: Syros Editions, 1994 (first edition) and 1997 (revised edition) Actualiser l’économie de Marx, Actuel Marx Confrontation, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1995 La mondialisation financière : genèse, coûts et enjeux (directeur de publication et deux chapitres), Syros, Collection Alternatives économiques, Paris, 1996, Tobin or not Tobin : une taxe internationale sur le capital (L'Esprit frappeur, 1999) Mondialisation : le capital rentier aux commandes in Les Temps Modernes, n°607, janvier-février 2000. Que se vayan todos ! Le peuple argentin se soulève avec Jean-Philippe Divès, Éditions Nautilus, Paris, 2002. Mondialisation et impérialisme Odile Castel, François Chesnais, Gérard Dumesnil...[et al.] Paris Éd. Syllepse, 2003 La finance mondialisée : racines sociales et politiques, configuration, conséquences - Sous la direction de François Chesnais, La Découverte, 2004 Les dettes illégitimes - Quand les banques font main basse sur les politiques publiques. Paris, Éd. Raisons d'Agir, juin 2011. Finance Capital Today: Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump. Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2016; Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2017
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Who was François Chesnais?
French economist (1934–2022)
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François Chesnais was born on 22 January 1934 in Montreal.
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François Chesnais died on 28 October 2022 in 20th arrondissement of Paris.
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François Chesnais was an economist.
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François Chesnais was French.
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