I intend to read the Krichmar paper, thanks for mentioning it. I looked in my library, I’ve got a 1987…
One thing is clear in retrospect: governments under the influence of the powers of money were a huge mistake. In the early days of the United States of America, Jefferson fought for a republic of citizens, Hamilton, for a republic of merchants. Hamilton won, that much is known.
In the twentieth century, von Mises, […]
A couple of weeks ago, my new book Le capitalisme à l’agonie came out, published by Fayard in Paris. Bénédicte has been so kind as to translate the summary I wrote for its backcover.
In 1989, at the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism was triumphant. Deprived […]
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 […]
Mr. Alan Greenspan, who headed the Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, for nearly twenty years, has recently committed an article in the Financial Times entitled “Frank-Dodd Fails to Meet test of our times.” (March, the 29th).
The Dodd-Frank Act is a several thousand page long jumble of 243 separate regulations, thought of as a […]
… to say the least. And the reason wasn’t laziness, it was just simply the success of the French version of it which has taken all my energy, plus that of François when he joined me, plus that of Julien, when he joined the team.
But this blog is about to be revived […]
They were sixteen in the euro zone. With a little help from the International Monetary Fund, they put their strength together to help Greece out. There they were: fifteen blind supporting one lame.
They were fifteen countries still standing in the euro zone. With a little help from the International Monetary Fund, the UK and […]
Original Post : And then Paul Jorion created a Theory of Prices.
It’s the ‘rentrée littéraire’ in France. Among […]
An English translation of Kerviel: la question que personne ne pose posted on my French blog on June 21st. Many thanks to E-blogs for the translation.
What have we learnt so far from Jérôme Kerviel’s trial about the big questions? Do his superiors know more they pretend about the transactions he was […]
Here an English translation of La machine infernale, my monthly column for March in Le Monde – Économie.
A DEVILISH DEVICE
Only five years ago, we were led to believe that the advertised model of the economic and financial apparatus represented a system that was finally mature: stable because thoroughly predisposed to self-regulate […]
An English translation of Le capitalisme (I) – Les nervures de l’avenir posted on my French blog on March 2nd.
In Reason in History (1837), a posthumous work composed from lecture notes, Hegel observes that “ … what experience and history teach is that peoples and governments have never yet learned from history, let […]
I intend to read the Krichmar paper, thanks for mentioning it. I looked in my library, I’ve got a 1987…
It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
Do Androids dream of electric sheeps ? Yes. Thanks Paul.
You say that A machine with only primary consciousness will probably have to come first. That’s the way evolution proceeded:…
It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
I fear your views of AI are pretty much outdated. They pre-date in any case neural networks. What you are…
Unfortunately IA is not The solution… We have to think outside the box… And IA just calculate fast but inside…
very well my brother
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Until we find aliens similar to us elsewhere in this universe who have solved the problems we humans have created…
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