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  • VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fifteenth lecture, 17th April 2013

    “What Can We Tell about the Future?” was my final lecture at the Stewardship of Finance chair in the academic year 2012-2013. The lecture was held in English as had been the case with prior ones. Most questions which then came from the room were in French, I answered them in the same tongue.

  • VUB, Jacques Attali: “Peut-on théoriser l’avenir ?”, Wednesday April 17 at 6:30 pm

    I’ve just heard from Jacques Attali who is currently in Shanghai that he will need to be in New York on Thursday morning. This will make it impossible for him to give the lecture planned at the VUB on Wednesday April 17. I’m sure this will be especially disappointing for those of you for whom…

  • PUBLISHERS BEHOLD!

    On the 18th of April will come to an end the first year of my teaching about the “Stewardship of Finance” at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). The videos of my lectures can all be viewed here on this blog and the full set can be accessed here.

    I’m currently writing up my lectures…

  • VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fourteenth lecture, 28th March 2013

    The fourteenth lecture of the course about on speculation. Pro (LoL) and contra.

    The author whose name I unfortunately don’t remember during the lecture: Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera. How Financial Models Shape Markets, Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Press 2006

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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).

  • « 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
    They have…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • VUB: STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE CHAIR, February 27 and 28, 2013

    Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 – 19:30 to 21:30
    VUB, Etterbeek
    Building D
    Promotion Hall

    Monica 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, seventh lecture, 13th December 2012

    Lord Adair Turner: socially useful and socially useless financial activities

  • VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, sixth lecture, 6th December 2012

    National Order, International Disorder: Tax Havens, Mafias, Shadow Banking

  • 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.