LLMs deal essentially with language but seems amenable to graphics as well. To such an extent that one may wonder…
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CHAIR “STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE” : EMMANUEL TODD on December 5th, MICHEL PRADA on December 19th, at the VUB
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is honored to invite you to attend the last two invited talks of this year.
Wednesday 5th of December – Emmanuel Todd: Les élites européennes: incompétence historique et anthropologique? This talk will be held in French
Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of […]
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, panel discussion, 25th October 2012
The panel discussion topic was the same as that of the lecture of the day by myself: “Law, Ethics and the business world”. The participants from left to right were: Geert Noels (Econopolis), Ivan Van de Cloot (Itinera), Marc Beaujean (P&V) and Benoît Frydman (ULB). The moderator was Steven Rombaut (vrt).
Unfortunately due to the […]
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fourth lecture, 25th October 2012
Fourth lecture : “Law, Ethics and the business world”.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, third lecture, 18th October 2012
Third lecture, October 18 : “Regulation and self-regulation. Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’”
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“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 […]
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, second lecture, 11th October 2012
The second lecture, on October 11 : “Is rational behaviour necessarily ethical ?”
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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.
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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.
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