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Category: Stewardship of Finance

« 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…

September 15, 2014
VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 8^th lecture, Aristotle : profit, ethics and price formation, December 2, 2013

Aristole : profit, ethics and price formation.

Full information here.

January 16, 2014
VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 7^th lecture, Lord Adair Turner : socially useful and socially useless financial activities, November 25, 2013

Lord Adair Turner : socially useful and socially useless financial activities.

Full information here.

January 16, 2014
VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 6^th 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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January 16, 2014
VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 5^th 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.

Full information here.

November 9, 2013
VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 3^d 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.

Full information here.

October 27, 2013
VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 2^nd 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.

Full information here.

October 27, 2013
VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 1^st 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.

Full information here.

October 27, 2013
“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…

September 16, 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.

April 29, 2013
PUBLISHERS BEHOLD!

On the 18^th 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…

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
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
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…

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, 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