Paul Jorion's Blog

Tag: Economics

  • What I’ve been trying to do all along

    Illustration by ChatGPT One-line role: Paul Jorion — seeking an intelligible account of how the world works, from lived social practice to formal and artificial systems. What I’ve been trying to do all along I did not begin my work with the intention of moving across disciplines. What happened instead is that I started with…

  • VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, ninth lecture, 21st 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.

  • 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 Worldly Philosophers” (Cowles…