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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.
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“The future of the Eurozone from an interest rate standpoint”, European Parliament, November 5, 2013
Here my contribution to European Parliament, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, November 5, 2013, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
The future of the Eurozone can be approached as a logical problem. If not solved, it can at least be significantly clarified when the issue is examined from the single standpoint of…
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European Parliament, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, November 5, 2013, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 3d lecture, Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”, October 14, 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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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 2nd lecture, Is rational behaviour necessarily ethical?, October 7, 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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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 1st lecture, The background: The stewardship of finance and the subprime crisis, September 30, 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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“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…
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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 MackieGood day MM. Barr and Mackie,
I’m writing to you as I receive several mails drawing my attention to the following paragraph of…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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
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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.
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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…
