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Calendar of the remaining events associated to the “Stewardship of Finance” Chair at the VUB
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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.
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, ninth lecture, 21st February 2013
My ninth lecture: labour and capital, talking about the distribution of newly created wealth, the way to conceptualise this, the political stances deriving from this and the light these shed on ethical perspectives about economic and financial issues.
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VUB: STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE CHAIR, February 27 and 28, 2013
Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 – 19:30 to 21:30
VUB, Etterbeek
Building D
Promotion HallMonica Mächler & Hugues Pirotte
Monica Mächler served since January 2009 until the end of September 2012 as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, after having served as
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, eighth lecture, 20th December 2012
Aistotle’s theory of price formation. His chrematistics: the role of money in society.
I start with a brief recap of my seventh lecture on Lord Adair Turner’s distinction between “useful” and “useless” financial activities.
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Stewardship of Finance Update
Eight of the fifteen lectures have by now been given in the first year of the “Stewardship of Finance” chair at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). There have been also two (most lively) guest panels, and four guest talks by distinguished visitors: Luc Coene, Governor of the Belgian central bank, Tomas Sedlacek (economist-philosopher, author of
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, seventh lecture, 13th December 2012
Lord Adair Turner: socially useful and socially useless financial activities
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, sixth lecture, 6th December 2012
National Order, International Disorder: Tax Havens, Mafias, Shadow Banking
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fifth lecture, 22nd November 2012
The Financial World and its Regulators
The panel discussion which took place after my lecture. Participants were Mathias Dewatripont (BNB-ULB), Jean Bellemans (Vesalius), Thierry Philipponnat (Finance Watch) and Guy Roelandt (Belfius Ins). The moderator was Steven Rombaut, from vrt, the Flemish Belgian radio and television.
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CHAIR “STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE” : EMMANUEL TODD on December 5th, MICHEL PRADA on December 19th, at the VUB
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is honored to invite you to attend the last two invited talks of this year.
Wednesday 5th of December – Emmanuel Todd: Les élites européennes: incompétence historique et anthropologique? This talk will be held in French
Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of
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