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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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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, panel discussion, 25th October 2012
The panel discussion topic was the same as that of the lecture of the day by myself: “Law, Ethics and the business world”. The participants from left to right were: Geert Noels (Econopolis), Ivan Van de Cloot (Itinera), Marc Beaujean (P&V) and Benoît Frydman (ULB). The moderator was Steven Rombaut (vrt).
Unfortunately due to the
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fourth lecture, 25th October 2012
Fourth lecture : “Law, Ethics and the business world”.
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, inaugural lecture : Why Stewardship of Finance?, October 4 2012
The inaugural lecture of the chair “Stewardship of Finance”, delivered by me at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, on the 4th of October 2012.
Why Stewardship of Finance?
When in the Autumn of 2011 I was first approached by Michel Flamée on behalf of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel about the chair I’m privileged to speak from
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LES PÊCHEURS D’HOUAT (1983), 2012 reprint
My first book, Les pêcheurs d’Houat, adapted from my anthropology Ph.D. thesis, had been out of print for many many years. Éditions du croquant have been kind enough to offer a reprint. Monique Woodward has translated here my foreword for the 2012 edition.
I have lived on the Isle of Houat from February
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