Paul Jorion's Blog

Tag: Economics

What I’ve been trying to do all along

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Paul Jorion — seeking an intelligible account of how the world works, from lived social practice to formal and artificial systems.

January 25, 2026
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
The mirage of a pluridisciplinary “science” of economics

This is a translation (by Bénédicte Kibler) of my most recent monthly column in the Economy supplement of the French daily Le Monde: Le mirage de la pluridisciplinarité.

Robert J. Shiller, professor of economics at Yale University, has published recently, along with his wife Virginia, a psychologist, an article entitled “Economists as…

April 9, 2011