Seventh lecture

Lord Adair Turner : socially useful and socially useless financial activities – Seventh guest lecture by Paul Jorion – 13th December 2012

– What functions should financial firms fulfil?
– Tobin tax, Glass-Steagall Act. Are there universal principles to banking?
– Shareholders and stakeholders. Do shareholders “own” a company?
– The responsibilities of a corporation, of a trust
– Are some products or services “socially useless”? If so, what should be done? Trust self-discipline or enforce prohibition?
– An international Constitution for the Economy?

Guest lecture by Paul Jorion on Thursday, 13 December, 2012 – 15:00 to 18:00 at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.