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« Stewardship of Finance » Chair, VUB, lectures resume on Monday September 29 at 4 p.m.
Paul Jorion, Ph.D., holder of the “Stewardship of Finance” Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will resume his lecturing on Monday September 29 at 4 p.m.
The course is taking place every Monday afternoon at that time in lecture hall D0.03 of building D (central building) of the university, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels. The…
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 8th lecture, Aristotle : profit, ethics and price formation, December 2, 2013
Aristole : profit, ethics and price formation.
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 7th lecture, Lord Adair Turner : socially useful and socially useless financial activities, November 25, 2013
Lord Adair Turner : socially useful and socially useless financial activities.
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 6th lecture, National order and international disorder : tax havens, shadow banking, mafias, November 18, 2013
National order and international disorder : tax havens, shadow banking, mafias
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 5th lecture, The financial world and its regulators, November 5, 2013
I’m reminding you that access is free : QB lecture room, every Monday from 4 to 6 P.M., Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels.
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 3d lecture, Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”, October 14, 2013
I’m reminding you that access is free : QB lecture room, every Monday from 4 to 6 P.M., Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels.
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 2nd lecture, Is rational behaviour necessarily ethical?, October 7, 2013
I’m reminding you that access is free : QB lecture room, every Monday from 4 to 6 P.M., Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels.
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VUB, Stewardship of Finance, 1st lecture, The background: The stewardship of finance and the subprime crisis, September 30, 2013
I’m reminding you that access is free : QB lecture room, every Monday from 4 to 6 P.M., Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels.
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“Stewardship of Finance”, lectures resume on September 30 at 4 p.m.
My “Stewardship of Finance” lectures at the VUB resume on September 30.
Lectures will be delivered in English, they are held on Mondays from 4 to 6 p.m. in lecture hall QB (2 Pleinlaan, 1050 Brussels); auditors are free to attend.
Lectures are videotaped and can be viewed on YouTube as well…
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VUB and ULB, “Stewardship of Finance” chair, Prince Philip and Princess Mathilda of Belgium ask students about their research, Avril 18 2013
Well, call me sentimental, but in a world of confrontation, disarray and dearth of proper answers, the whole occasion was, please forgive me for being so blunt, perfect.
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, fifteenth lecture, 17th April 2013
“What Can We Tell about the Future?” was my final lecture at the Stewardship of Finance chair in the academic year 2012-2013. The lecture was held in English as had been the case with prior ones. Most questions which then came from the room were in French, I answered them in the same tongue.
The author whose name I unfortunately don’t remember during the lecture: Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera. How Financial Models Shape Markets, Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Press 2006
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, thirteenth lecture, 21st March 2013
The thirteenth lecture on ethical ways of sharing newly created wealth. The situation in Cyprus served as an illustration.
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, twelfth lecture, 14th March 2013
Twelfth lecture of the « Stewardship of Finance » chair. It is the notion of risk and the different forms of risk sharing which allow the building of a reasoned catalogue of all types of financial instruments and analysing them in an ethical perspective.
Is it admissible that taxpayers were required not only to pay…
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, eleventh lecture, 7th March 2013
The eleventh lecture of the « Stewardship of Finance » Chair, devoted entirely to the tragic story of the Texan corporation called Enron which was the topic of my book Investing in a Post-Enron World (2003).
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Calendar of the remaining events associated to the “Stewardship of Finance” Chair at the VUB
For registration, precise location and times, please look here.
On March 7th, my lecture will be devoted to the Enron corporation and its downfall as a counter-example of stewardship of finance.
On March 13, Jacques Attali will be our guest. He is head of Pla-Net Finance and of the study group on a…
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, tenth lecture, 28th February 2013
The tenth lecture in the course, devoted to risk and insurance: financial risk, systemic risk, the insurance business’ first steps, the methodology: Value at Risk, regulation: Solvency II.
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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.
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VUB, “Stewardship of Finance” Chair, eighth lecture, 20th December 2012
Aistotle’s theory of price formation. His chrematistics: the role of money in society.
I start with a brief recap of my seventh lecture on Lord Adair Turner’s distinction between “useful” and “useless” financial activities.