François Chesnais (22 January 1934 â 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 lâÂÂéconomie 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, nð607, janvier-février 2000.
- Que se vayan todos ! Le peuple argentin se soulève avec Jean-Philippe Divès, ÃÂditions Nautilus, Paris, 2002.
- Mondialisation et impérialisme Odile Castel, François Chesnais, Gérard Dumesnil...[et al.] Paris ÃÂd. 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, ÃÂd. 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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