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Back to the Drawing Board, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
On Sunday evening, when it had been fairly confidently expected that UK Prime Minister Theresa May would be invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon on Tuesday, thus initiating negotiations for the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union yesterday, news suddenly began to trickle in to the effect that there…
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Honest Abe foresaw dishonest Donald! by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post. Abraham Lincoln warned us : the day will come when Trump arises. Let’s be ready to denounce him.
Dear Paul,
It is noteworthy that the Trump executive order signed on January 27th, apparently discriminating against foreign nationals on religious grounds, seems to violate the US constitution (and thus undermine the…
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Chilcot Report – Rats in a sack, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
Dear Paul,
On the subject of the video of Robin Cook’s resignation speech in 2003 which you show beside your regular Friday video, I just wanted to say how much I appreciated seeing that again. A model resignation speech, listened to intently by Jeremy Corbyn, as the video shows. At the…
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Another Blot on the Escutcheon, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
Dear Paul,
I thought you might find it interesting to take a look at Nicola Sturgeon’s Twitter page following the publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq war, “the UK’s most shameful foreign-policy action in years”, as the leader of the Scottish National Party’s group of MPs, Angus Robertson, has just said…
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How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
In the weeks and days leading up to the referendum on UK membership of the European Union a message was being transmitted loudly and clearly from Germany and indeed elsewhere: if the UK decides to leave the EU, it will be shooting itself in the foot. This was not some modern-day equivalent of…
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“Confusion Now Hath Made His Masterpiece”, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
Dear Paul,
I’m rather fond of Shakespeare myself, not least Macbeth. With reference to your post on Boris Johnson and the tragi-comic events which are unfolding in England on a daily basis, I think it is as well to bear in mind that intense existential national debates are now under way…
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Ah, the endless complexities of English identity!, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post. As a comment upon Le temps qu’il fait le 30 juin 2016.
Ah, the endless complexities of English identity as defined by place and social rank but especially social rank in its relationship to forms of language, which function not only as communication, of course, but as mechanisms for defining and…
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Scotland – “A Terrible Beauty Is Born”, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
Since Sunday morning, when the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, answered a question on a BBC Scotland television programme known as Politics Scotland concerning a House of Lords advice note which had been circulated on the subject of legislative consent in relation to legislation giving effect to Brexit which would have to…
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Scotland and Brexit, by Duncan Sutherland
Guest post.
Dear Mr. Jorion,
Having read what has appeared in your blog so far about the complexities of the decision taken by the people of England on Thursday (but not by the people of Scotland), I wonder if you are yet aware of a complexity which has just been raised in Scotland today.
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Paul Jorion at San Patrignano, April 10, 2015
The great challenges of our time, San Patrignano 2015
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The Troika: Why not take its destiny in our own hands?
This is an English translation of my column Troïka : Il va peut-être falloir s’en occuper nous-mêmes ! of February 27 2015. Thanks to Ioana-Noemy Toma for her kind help !
Jean-Daniel Magnin sends me a newspaper clipping that tells about the actress Emma Thompson stating she will not pay income tax – which she’s in…
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« Stewardship of Finance » Chair, VUB, lectures resume on Monday September 29 at 4 p.m.
Paul Jorion, Ph.D., holder of the “Stewardship of Finance” Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will resume his lecturing on Monday September 29 at 4 p.m.
The course is taking place every Monday afternoon at that time in lecture hall D0.03 of building D (central building) of the university, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels. The…
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On Europe, an answer to Mr François Hollande, president of the French Republic, by Pierre-Yves Dambrine
An English translation of Sur l’Europe, en réponse à Monsieur François Hollande, président de la République, par Pierre-Yves Dambrine by Johan Leestemaker
Invited commentary, in response of a tribune de François Hollande published today May 8 in the…
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Exorcising animal spirits out of Keynes, by Paul Jorion
Exorcising animal spirits out of Keynes
Paul Jorion, Stewardship of finance chair, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
To be published in a forthcoming issue of the European Journal of Social Theory: special issue on “Rethinking Capitalism”, 2014
Might be referred to as “European Journal of Social Theory (forthcoming): http://www.pauljorion.com/blog_en/?p=1229″
Abstract:
Torn between the duties associated with…
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 8th lecture, Aristotle : profit, ethics and price formation, December 2, 2013
Aristole : profit, ethics and price formation.
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 7th lecture, Lord Adair Turner : socially useful and socially useless financial activities, November 25, 2013
Lord Adair Turner : socially useful and socially useless financial activities.
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 6th lecture, National order and international disorder : tax havens, shadow banking, mafias, November 18, 2013
National order and international disorder : tax havens, shadow banking, mafias
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SINGING MEANINGFUL WORDS
Oh boy! Only 327 people have watched this on YouTube: Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary fame, about political singing – singing meaningful words! – and earning a living out of it.
Let’s give him a little push!
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 5th lecture, The financial world and its regulators, November 5, 2013
I’m reminding you that access is free : QB lecture room, every Monday from 4 to 6 P.M., Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels.
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European Parliament, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, November 5, 2013
My intervention is part of the filmed account of the session on the Parliament’s own TV channel.