Dear young scholars,
The Urban and Regional Economics WG, the Inequality WG and the Financial Stability WG are pleased to invite you to the 6th session of our webinar series "Reconciling Financial Stability and Inclusion across space".
We are happy to host Jérôme Blanc, professor of Economics at Sciences Po Lyon, who will speak about the role of Local currencies in enhancing both financial inclusion and financial stability. His general position is that the contribution of local currencies should be deceptive in the light of financial stability and inclusion, unless there are major changes in their context and extent.
Date: Wed March 14th, 2018
Time: 5 pm GMT (6 pm CET)
Link to the webinar: https://ysd.ineteconomics.org/event/5a94000ba2824c520a0b9696
Hope to see you online!
The URE, IWG and FS working groups 🙂
Jérôme Blanc is a professor of Economics at Sciences Po Lyon and member of the board of the Veblen Institution for Economic Reform.
His works deal with money and the plurality of its forms and practices, mainly analyzed through socioeconomic viewpoint and history of ideas.
Interested in monetary plurality, he published Les monnaies parallèles. Unité et diversité du fait monétaire (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2000). He focuses especially on a particular dimension of monetary plurality, that is, complementary, community or local currencies. On this subject, he co-authored Une économie sans argent : les systèmes d’échange local (SEL) (Paris : Seuil, 1999, directed by J.-M. Servet) and edited Monnaies sociales : Exclusion et liens financiers, rapport 2005-06 (Paris : Economica, 2006). He organized the first international academic conference on this topic in February 2011, in Lyons. In 2015, he co-founded RAMICS (Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary currency systems), and serves as its president. He is a member of the Editorial board of the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR).
Drawing on the case of community currencies, his works also deal with social and solidarity economy. He coedited the collective book Les contributions des coopératives à une économie plurielle (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2012, with Denis Colongo). He collaborates to the Chaire d’entrepreneuriat en économie sociale et solidaire (Chair of entrepreneurship in social and solidarity economy) of the université Lumière Lyon 2, is a member of the Francophone inter-university network of social and solidarity economy (RIUESS) and of the RECMA (Revue internationale de l’économie sociale).