Michel Albert

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Michel Albert (born February 25, 1930 in Fontenay-le-Comte , France , † March 20, 2015 in Paris ) was a French economist .

Life

From 1978 to 1981 Albert was the head of the Commissariat général du Plan , the agency for economic policy planning that reports directly to the French Prime Minister. From 1982 to 1994 he was president of the French insurance company Assurances Générales de France , a later subsidiary of Allianz . From 1994 to 2003 he was a member of the Monetary Policy Council of the French National Bank . In the scientific field, he was a permanent member and secretary for life of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques ("Academy of Moral and Political Sciences") of the Institut de France . He was part of the Pontifical Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice (CAPP) foundation .

Michel Albert had also been active in the political and economic policy fields since the 1960s. His best-known work is Capitalism versus Capitalism , in which he coined the term “ Rhenish Capitalism ”.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: Ciel et terre. Manifestos radical. Denoël, Paris 1970
    • German: The liberated society. A charter for Europe. translated by Eva Gärtner and Stephan Zickler, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-455-07012-4
  • with Jean Ferniot: Les vaches maigres. Gallimard, Paris 1975
  • Le pari français. Le nouveau plein-emploi. Seuil, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-02-006197-X
  • Un pari pour l'Europe. Vers le redressement de l'économie européenne dans les années 80. Editions du Seuil, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-02-006606-8
    • German: Challenge Europe. The European Community as an opportunity. translated by Barbara Vaccaro, Piper, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-492-00684-1
  • with Jean Boissonnat: Crise, krach, boom. Editions du Seuil, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-02-010087-8
  • Capitalism contre capitalism. Seuil, Paris 1991, ISBN 2020132079
    • German: capitalism versus capitalism . Translated by Hans Kray, Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-593-34703-2
    • English: Capitalism vs. capitalism. How America's obsession with individual achievement and short-term profit has led it to the brink of collapse. Four Walls Eight Windows, New York 1993, ISBN 1-56858-005-3
  • with Jean Boissonnat and Michel Camdessus: Notre foi dans ce siècle. Arléa, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-86959-560-3
  • Regards croisés sur l'Europe. Presses universitaires de France, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-13-054990-X

Magazines

  • The future of the social models of the European continent. In: Wolfgang Streeck: International Economy, National Democracy. Challenges for Democratic Theory. Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 1998 (= writings of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research Cologne, special volume), ISBN 3593361132 , pp. 195–209
  • with Rauf Gonenc: The Future of Rhenish Capitalism. In: Political Quarterly. Volume 67, No. 3, 2005, pp. 184-193

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann May and Ulla May, Handbook for Economic Education , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, ISBN 978-3486587401 , p. 136
  2. ↑ Michel Albert on the future of the German economic model , interview with Lothar Schnitzler, WirtschaftsWoche from May 19, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontenay-le-Comte , France
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2015
Place of death Paris