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“Stewardship of Finance”, lectures resume on September 30 at 4 p.m.

My “Stewardship of Finance” lectures at the VUB resume on September 30. Lectures will be delivered in English, they are held on Mondays from 4 to 6 p.m. in lecture hall QB (2 Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels); auditors are free to attend. Lectures are videotaped and can be viewed on YouTube as well as here on…

September 16, 2013
A mail exchange about JP Morgan’s “The Euro area adjustment: about halfway there”, Europe Economic Research, 28 May 2013

From : Paul Jorion Object : The Euro area adjustment: about halfway there Date : 21 June 2013 21:33:20 UTC+02:00 To : Malcolm Barr, David Mackie Good day MM. Barr and Mackie, I’m writing to you as I receive several mails drawing my attention to the following paragraph of your recent May report: “The political…

June 24, 2013
VUB and ULB, “Stewardship of Finance” chair, Prince Philip and Princess Mathilda of Belgium ask students about their research, Avril 18 2013

Well, call me sentimental, but in a world of confrontation, disarray and dearth of proper answers, the whole occasion was, please forgive me for being so blunt, perfect.

April 29, 2013
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fifteenth lecture, 17^th 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. As…

April 29, 2013
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…

April 15, 2013
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 under…

April 6, 2013
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fourteenth lecture, 28^th 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

April 2, 2013
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, thirteenth lecture, 21^st March 2013

The thirteenth lecture on ethical ways of sharing newly created wealth. The situation in Cyprus served as an illustration.

March 29, 2013
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 seize power. Put more…

March 22, 2013
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, twelfth lecture, 14^th 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…

March 18, 2013
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, eleventh lecture, 7^th 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).

March 11, 2013
« 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 put the money somewhere But…

March 10, 2013
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 positive economy…

March 6, 2013
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, tenth lecture, 28^th 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.

March 4, 2013
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, ninth lecture, 21^st 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.

February 26, 2013
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 CEO of the Swiss…

February 25, 2013
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, eighth lecture, 20^th 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.

January 14, 2013
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…

December 26, 2012
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, seventh lecture, 13^th December 2012

Lord Adair Turner: socially useful and socially useless financial activities

December 17, 2012
VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, sixth lecture, 6^th December 2012

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

December 10, 2012

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