Toulouse. ECUs, Euros, Bitcoin… let’s decipher the currency at the Quai des Savoirs
It is as old as the world and without it, exchanges would be impossible in the complex societies that are ours…
To have confidence in one’s currency is to have confidence in the world in which it circulates, today and tomorrow. A world structured by central banks and the order they define.
Does this order only have good sides? Would there be less inequality in a world without currencies? Does the emergence of cryptocurrencies herald a deep questioning or just a speculative bubble with devastating effects? To advance on the answers, this meeting will take the path of history and that of mathematics.
Stakeholders :
Stefano Ugoliniteacher-researcher in economics and historian of monetary institutions at Sciences Po Toulouse, member of the Laboratory for study and research on the economy, policies and social systems (LEREPS – ENSFEA / UT1 Capitole / UT2J / UT3 Paul Sabatier )
Ricardo Perez-Marcodirector of research in mathematics at the CNRS, member of the Mathematical Institute of Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche – (IMJ-PRG – Paris Cité University / CNRS / Sorbonne University)
Meeting presented by Olivier Voizeux, journalist specializing in science
Practical information :
Tuesday, April 26 at 6:00 p.m.
Quay of Knowledge
Free and free entrance – welcome from 6 p.m. – start of the meeting at 6.15 p.m. – Booking is recommended.
These conferences can also be followed online, on the channel Federal University YouTube Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées and in replay on that of Quay of Knowledge.
Meetings organized every last Tuesday of the month, until October 25th.
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