https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Why-Central-Bankers-Should-Read-Economic-History https://booksandideas.net/Why-Central-Bankers-Should-Read-Economic-History 2021-02-08T08:00:00Z text/html en Éric Monnet Economy crisis central bank banks debt history Books and ideas originals <p>How can economic policy-makers use economic history as a guide for their deliberations and decisions? Focusing on the case of central banking, this essay argues that the virtue of history is not only to improve economic models and quantitative studies, but to provide a perspective distinct from standard economic reasoning.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Who-Is-Watching-the-Shadow-Banks https://booksandideas.net/Who-Is-Watching-the-Shadow-Banks 2019-06-06T07:00:00Z text/html en Andreas Eisl Economy finance crisis regulation banks Books and ideas originals shadow bank <p>Shadow banking refers to bank-like financial activities that do not fall under traditional regulations; they have been one of the root causes of the recent financial crisis. M. Thiemann identifies the structural causes for their rapid growth, and shows which institutional reforms could prevent the circumvention of regulations.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Radical-Uncertainty-of-the-Economy https://booksandideas.net/The-Radical-Uncertainty-of-the-Economy 2017-04-03T07:00:00Z text/html en Jean-Pierre Landau Economy market banks politique économique <p>Former Governor of the Bank of England and a renowned economist, Mervyn King presents his views on the recent financial crisis and urges economists to accomplish a “necessary intellectual revolution leading to a complete reform program”.</p> https://booksandideas.net/When-French-Banks-Encounter-their https://booksandideas.net/When-French-Banks-Encounter-their 2014-03-24T08:30:00Z text/html en Georges Gloukoviezoff Society France inequalities banks exclusion Institut du monde contemporain <p>Most banks have now abandoned their previous function of providing advice. Instead, they view their services as products designed to maximize profits. They have started invoking the client's autonomy as a way of passing on the risk of financial exclusion to their customers. In what ways have bank employees reacted to these new circumstances?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Financial-Crises-and-Banking https://booksandideas.net/Financial-Crises-and-Banking 2014-01-27T08:30:00Z text/html en Éric Monnet Economy finance crisis banks <p>Eugene White, one of the leading financial historians in the United States, discusses how history can shed light on the current debates about banking regulation. Stressing the difference between 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> and 20<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century financial crises, he explains the causes of financial crashes, the legacy of the Glass Steagall act, as well as the future of banking.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Settling-Up-with-the-Bank https://booksandideas.net/Settling-Up-with-the-Bank 2012-05-21T11:09:44Z text/html en Jean-François Laé & Numa Murard Society France banks debt Florence Gould Foundation <p>What does a human life look like to a bank teller? The banking system's rules of variable geometry mean that the morality of money is not the same for everyone. Money cuts across social boundaries and strengthens them at the same time, forcing those who are less well off to endure the humiliating end-of-month struggle in the name of “autonomy.”</p> https://booksandideas.net/Value-in-Trading-Rooms https://booksandideas.net/Value-in-Trading-Rooms 2012-04-03T10:03:21Z text/html en Horacio Ortiz Economy finance France banks behaviour <p>How does a bank work? Is information theory sufficient to the understanding of the complex interactions between clients and the different professions involved in creating financial products? Using Bruno Latour's sociology of sciences, an innovative study takes its chances at solving some of the most difficult riddles of contemporary financial theory.</p>