Cybersyn: a 1960s socialist internet
I 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 Woods
Mon intervention de ce jour sur France Info (Un jour, une question, par Emmanuel Davidenkoff) concerne l'abolition du système de Bretton...
Data Mining
Frédéric 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 Arts
On my way to Zurich University of the Arts for "Leonardo Express", a workshop on the Arts, the future of the Arts, Higher Arts Education...
Les Chicago Boys
Dans les années 1970, les Chicago Boys étaient un groupe d’économistes chiliens ultra-libéraux formés à la pensée de Milton Friedman de...
Liberté, Egalité, Fragilité
New Economic Thinking at OECD Last week OECD welcomed the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) for their annual conference on...
On ethnic statistics
My opinion is not yet fully set on the so-called "ethnic" or, as they say in the US, "racial" statistics. From an empiricist'...
Quand la dette d'un Etat est elle considérée soutenable ?
Here is my weekly question on France Info (aired on March 18). Quand la dette d'un Etat est elle considérée soutenable ? quand elle est...
Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics at BI Business School, Oslo
I have now arrived in Oslo for the 23rd Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics. This is a conference that I like...
Retour à 2004 ? Les tribulations de la parité euro/dollar
The rapid change in the euro/dollar exchange rate brings us back to the early/mid 2000s and reminds me of one old study I did with other...