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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, thirteenth lecture, 21st March 2013
The thirteenth lecture on ethical ways of sharing newly created wealth. The situation in Cyprus served as an illustration.
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COMPLEXITY AND THE “SKYNET EFFECT”
This is the translation by John Holland of my post entitled Complexité et effet Skynet, originally published on June 16th 2012.
The world in which we live today increasingly resembles a science fiction film from the 1950s. Some of those films were excellent because they raised fundamental questions about how machines…
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, twelfth lecture, 14th March 2013
Twelfth lecture of the « Stewardship of Finance » chair. It is the notion of risk and the different forms of risk sharing which allow the building of a reasoned catalogue of all types of financial instruments and analysing them in an ethical perspective.
Is it admissible that taxpayers were required not only to pay…
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, eleventh lecture, 7th March 2013
The eleventh lecture of the « Stewardship of Finance » Chair, devoted entirely to the tragic story of the Texan corporation called Enron which was the topic of my book Investing in a Post-Enron World (2003).
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« Dédicace too big to … », by luami
Guest post.
« Dédicace too big to … »
Have you heard of “too big to fail !”?
Now they say “too big to jail !”
They know they have the whole power
Because they finance the lawyer!They don’t care about Justice
Nor about the State Police
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Calendar of the remaining events associated to the “Stewardship of Finance” Chair at the VUB
For registration, precise location and times, please look here.
On March 7th, my lecture will be devoted to the Enron corporation and its downfall as a counter-example of stewardship of finance.
On March 13, Jacques Attali will be our guest. He is head of Pla-Net Finance and of the study group on a…
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, tenth lecture, 28th February 2013
The tenth lecture in the course, devoted to risk and insurance: financial risk, systemic risk, the insurance business’ first steps, the methodology: Value at Risk, regulation: Solvency II.