Author: Paul Jorion

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, third lecture, 18th October 2012

    Third lecture, October 18 : “Regulation and self-regulation. Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’”

  • “Stewardship of Finance” chair, “Law, Ethics and the business world”, talk by Luc Coene, Governor of the Belgian National Bank, 24th October 2012

    The Vrije Universiteit Brussel invites you to participate in an Invited Talk and a Panel Discussion, both steered by Paul Jorion, on October 24th and October 25th, 2012. Law, Ethics and the Business World

    – The Invited Talk and the Panel Discussion are part of the Academic Chair ‘Stewardship of Finance’ founded by Vrije Universiteit…

  • VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, second lecture, 11th October 2012

    The second lecture, on October 11 : “Is rational behaviour necessarily ethical ?”

  • VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, inaugural lecture, 4th October 2012

    Some pictures of the audience, of some well-known fixtures of the blog, as well as the introductory speeches of the chair.

  • STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE, Inaugural lecture, Brussels, October 4, at 2:45 P.M.

    Be so kind as to (freely!) register on the VUB’s website where you will also find the directions to the lecture hall, it is here.

    The lectures during the academic year 2012-13 are being detailed here.

  • PRESS RELEASE : VUB chair promotes the stewardship of finance

    Brussels, Wednesday, September 12, 2012

    PRESS RELEASE

    VUB chair promotes the stewardship of finance

    ‘Stewardship of Finance’ is the name of a new chair founded by Vrije Universiteit Brussel and sponsored by six major insurance companies. The chair is meant to promote the notion of a stewardship of finance. VUB Rector…

  • PERSBERICHT : VUB-leerstoel bevordert ethische financiële dienstverlening

    Brussel, woensdag 12 september 2012

    VUB-leerstoel bevordert ethische financiële dienstverlening

     

    Stewardship…

  • “Why Stewardship of Finance?”, Inaugural lecture, 4th October 2012

  • “STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE” CHAIR, VUB, BRUSSELS, OCTOBER 4, 3:00 P.M.

    Many thanks to “Religieuses” for her poster!