BETA’s major conference – Finance, debt and sovereign bankruptcies: a sociological approach, by Benjamin Lemoine
The 2025/03/19
From 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Event details :
Benjamin Lemoine (sociologist – CNRS researcher and vice-director of the Maurice Halbwachs Centre at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris) will be the guest speaker at the next Grande conférence du BETA, to be held on 19 March 2025 at the Faculté de Droit, Sciences économiques et Gestion in Nancy.
He will offer a sociological analysis of the relationship between finance, debt and sovereign bankruptcies.
Abstract: Over the last fifteen years or so, public debt has come to dominate the French media and political landscape as an inescapable constraint, a threat that justifies policies of fiscal austerity and all kinds of social and environmental renunciations. The expression of sovereign power has shifted: the architect State, banker of the economy and planner, has been replaced by a finance State, serving to protect financial capitalism and supply-side policies. This lecture will describe how market mechanisms, as well as the operations of law and finance, structure to varying degrees both the horizons of the central states of the international financial architecture and the sovereign bankruptcies of peripheral states.
This conference is free and open to the general public.
