Isaac Asimov as an EconometricianIsaac Asimov, one of the masters of Anticipation, aka Sci-Fi, invented the concept of Psychohistory in his novel FOUNDATION (1951). Well,...
Econometrics helps to understand climate changeHere is a post that I wrote for ESSEC Knowledge in October 2014. It is still up to date! When Claude Allegre published his book...
Current research in economicsThe NBER Summer Institute has started again and economists from around the world are now congregating in Boston to discuss their recent...
Public debt in 3minESSEC TV asked me to do a 3min topical video on public debt and the case of Greece. Here it is. The full text can be found on ESSEC...
MoMA R&D The Way of the AlgorithmThanks to the visual artist Karine Baptiste, I recently came across MoMA R&D which is a fantastic resource at the interaction of Arts,...
La production du savoir. Carrières et compétitions dans l'enseignement et la rechercheJe suis en train d'écouter le podcast d'un cours au Collège de France de l'an dernier, donné par Pierre-Michel MENGER. Il fournit une...
Cybersyn: a 1960s socialist internetI recently came across this article in Frieze Magazine which describes CYBERSYN which was a system designed in Salvadore Allende's Chile...
L'abolition du système de change de Bretton WoodsMon intervention de ce jour sur France Info (Un jour, une question, par Emmanuel Davidenkoff) concerne l'abolition du système de Bretton...
Data MiningFrédéric Martel m'a invité ce soir sur son émission "Soft Power" sur France Culture. Le sujet de mon intervention était une définition du...
"Digital disruption and Higher Art Education in 2025" at Zurich University of the ArtsOn my way to Zurich University of the Arts for "Leonardo Express", a workshop on the Arts, the future of the Arts, Higher Arts Education...
