François Chesnais (22 January 1934 – 29 October 2022) was a French economist and scholar.

[1] He was a member of the Scientific Council of ATTAC-France,[2] 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.

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