LLMs deal essentially with language but seems amenable to graphics as well. To such an extent that one may wonder…
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Capitalism (I) – The Veins of the Future
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 […]
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The House is on Fire!
An English translation of Feu en la demeure !, posted on my French blog on February 25.
Ladies and gentlemen of the European regulatory authorities, I am today turning to you: the house is on fire!
Demands that Greece lowers its civil servants’ wages will not save her. Your prodding Greece to tackle tax […]
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France 24, « Le Débat / The Debate », Wednesday February 3d, from 7:10 PM to 7:50 PM
We will ponder: “Might the financial crisis be followed by national crises?”
Alessandro Giraudo – Chief Economist, Tradition Viel (in the studio like myself)
Ondine Smulders – The Economist (calling in from Athens)
A (to be determined) Reuters Breakingviews’ journalist (calling in from London)Podcasts :
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Polar Bear Solidarity
Conceptual artist Little Shiva who helped me design Santa Crisis last year informs me she went to Copenhaguen in her capacity of a polar bear.
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August 4th, 1789
Cityislander’s imaginative translation of “La nuit du 4 août” at the French end of this blog. Many thanks to him!
Exactly 220 years ago (the French Revolution), on the night of August 4th, 1789, the question certainly was not about systemic risk. Yet, on that very night, an event of systemic magnitude occurred: […]
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Why we need to find something else
A reader of my French blog has taken the trouble of translating my most recent Friday video in English. Many thanks to him!
NEWS is conveyed by letter, word or mouth
and comes to us from North, East, West and South” (Witt’s Recreations). . . but mostly from the Paul Jorion blog […]
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Santa Crisis
A blog gives you visibility, allowing people from all over with views akin to yours getting in touch. That’s what happened a couple of months ago with conceptual artist, Little Shiva asking: “What about a common project?” I told her of a possible allegory for the crisis, a symbol that you could copy here […]
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What went wrong. An anthropologist’s point of view.
Here is the communication I made on March 3rd to the Socialist members of the European Parliament in Brussels as my contribution to the one-day conference entitled “Closing the casino: building a fairer and stronger real economy”
Modern societies of European origin were historically built according to a tripartite structure composed of warriors-raiders, priests […]
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The danger of half-truths in a time of crisis
Published in Le Monde – Economie, March 2nd 2009 (transl. Danielle Goodman)
Let’s assume that governments are actively concerned with the interests of the populace at this very moment – an ardent hope of mine. To succeed, their actions have to benefit from a certain surprise effect so as not to be thwarted in advance […]
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