Isaac Asimov, one of the masters of Anticipation, aka Sci-Fi, invented the concept of Psychohistory in his novel FOUNDATION (1951). Well,...

The NBER Summer Institute has started again and economists from around the world are now congregating in Boston to discuss their recent...

ESSEC 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...

I recently came across this article in Frieze Magazine which describes CYBERSYN which was a system designed in Salvadore Allende's Chile...

Mon intervention de ce jour sur France Info (Un jour, une question, par Emmanuel Davidenkoff) concerne l'abolition du système de Bretton...

Dans les années 1970, les Chicago Boys étaient un groupe d’économistes chiliens ultra-libéraux formés à la pensée de Milton Friedman de...

New Economic Thinking at OECD Last week OECD welcomed the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) for their annual conference on...

My opinion is not yet fully set on the so-called "ethnic" or, as they say in the US, "racial" statistics. From an empiricist'...

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...

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...