From 2009 to 1929

The current and still unfolding crisis of our economic system shows disturbing resemblances to the Great Depression in terms of magnitude, triggering mechanisms, and curative public interventions. This paper compares the experience, mechanisms, and consequences of these two crises in light of the analysis of Fisher, Keynes, and Minsky. This analysis proves very useful for understanding the triggering mechanisms of the current crisis, as well as its propagation mechanisms. It also addresses two dilemmas within the debate about the curative as well as preventive measures for getting out of the crisis and avoiding a new disaster: the dilemma of monetary activism and that of liquidity.

Crisis Perception in Financial Media Discourse: a Concrete Application through the Minskian/Mainstream Opposition

Special issue Language and Economics; National audience

Music materiality and the Anthropocene: The violin making ecosystem and the naturality question

International audience

String Quatuor Economy and “Naturality”

Opening Speech ENCATC Annual Conference : Congress Scientific Project and Rationale - Sustainability at Work

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Crisis perception in financial media discourse:a concrete application using the Minskian/mainstream opposition

Purpose– The purpose of this article is to highlight the need for renewed collaborative efforts between linguists and economists to develop a multidisciplinary approach to discourse studies to single out, in the case at hand, how financial media discourse might reflect either a prevailing mainstream or a Minskian conceptual apparatus in financial crisis related papers.Design/methodology/approach– The paper conducts exploratory research by focusing on semantic analysis, so as to indicate how the latter might possibly indicate a shift in the prevailing framework in contemporary financial media discourse. After a clear exposition of a theoretical dichotomy between the Minskian and mainstream a…