Teaching & Masterclasses
2025 – MasterClass – Alyra: Discrete governance of Bitcoin [ Slides ]
2023 – Live Philo – Alyra: Political governance across crypto crises [ Slides ]
2020 – Monetary Workshop – Strate Design School Anthropocene and money: IMF theory and the ecological crisis
2020 – Monetary Workshop – Strate Design School Anthropocene and money: IMF theory and the ecological crisis
2016–2019 – EHESS Seminar: "Monetary spaces, parallel currencies, cryptocurrencies and institutional crises"
Main teacher, EHESS central seminar (24h/year, 6 ECTS – 12 annual sessions)
[ 2016-17 Program (PDF) ]
Sessions:
PART I: What theoretical framework for money? The hypothesis of money as an institution
Session 1 – Introduction: Economic analysis of money and the need to return to institutionalist theories.
[ Video Oct 31, 2017 ]
Session 2 – Money as institution and its invariants: the triptych debt/trust/sovereignty.
Session 3 – Money, currencies and representations: practices and representations forming more or less homogeneous currency zones.
Session 4 – Contemporary institutionalization of the hierarchical monetary system and tension at the core of sovereignty.
PART II: Parallel currencies as response and symptom of local monetary problems
Session 5 – General presentation of the phenomenon of parallel currencies and elements of definition.
Session 6 – Barter, a singular monetary device in response to situated constraints: the case of Russia in the 1990s.
Session 7 – Social currencies, monetary reappropriation and economic revitalization.
Session 8 – Demonetization in Greece and Varoufakis' Plan B.
PART III: The revolution of cryptocurrencies in terms of institutional arrangements
Session 9 – Bitcoin, its blockchain or the advent of cryptocurrencies / Socio-political governance of Bitcoin in two sessions. –
[ Video Jan 28, 2018 ] |
[ Video Jan 8, 2019 ] |
[ Video part 1, Jan 21, 2019 ] |
[ Video part 2, Feb 4, 2019 ]
Session 10 – General presentation of the phenomenon of cryptocurrencies and its evolution / emergence of Altcoins. –
[ Video Feb 11, 2018 ] |
[ Video Mar 4, 2019 ]
Session 11 – 'Code is Law' and the return of discretion: the problem of "forks" through the example of Ethereum. –
[ Video Feb 27, 2018 ] |
[ Video Apr 1, 2019 ]
Session 12 – Conclusion: the thorny question of regulation - between distrust and trust / Towards sovereign cryptocurrencies?. –
[ Video Mar 9, 2018 ] |
[ Video Apr 8, 2019 ]
2019 – Teaching – ESGI: monetary institutions & crypto ecosystems (30h)
[ Modules: Microeconomics, Game Theory, Institutional Monetary Theory ]
2019 – Teaching – ESGI: monetary institutions & crypto ecosystems (30h)
[ Modules: Microeconomics, Game Theory, Institutional Monetary Theory ]
2018 – Lecturer – ESILV: Introduction to cryptocurrencies (18h/year)
[ Applied theoretical framework ]
2018 – Teaching – ESGI: crypto modules & monetary theory (15h)
[ Institutional theory | Crypto economics ]
Academic Communications & Conferences
2025 – Workshop "From Crésus to Nakamoto" – Lyon
From liberal dreams to carnivalesque monetization in Bitcoin
[ Slides ]
2022 – Crypto & Alternative Currencies Conference – Lyon
Polycentric governance revealed by crisis (Keynote)
[ Slides ]
2021 – ACPR – Fintech Risk Suptech
Webinar on blockchain governance
[ Slides ]
2019 – Workshop Alternative Currencies – Brussels
From cryptocurrencies to digital assets
[ Slides ]
2019 – French-Russian Seminar – Moscow
10 years after Bitcoin: from cryptocurrencies to digital currencies and digital assets
[ Slides ] |
[ Video ] |
[ Russian Translation ]
2018 – French-Russian Seminar – Moscow
Digital currencies between contestation and monetary reappropriation
[ Program ] |
[ Video ] |
[ Russian Translation ]
2018 – IV International Conference on Complementary and Social Currencies – Barcelona
Cryptocurrencies in the light of parallel, social and complementary currencies: continuity and rupture in the field of monetary governance
[ Pdf ] |
[ Abstract ] |
[ Video 1/2 ] |
[ Video 2/2 ]
2016 – French Monetary Institutionalism Colloquium – Lyon
Bitcoin as institutionless institutionalization
[ Article ] |
[ Program ]
2016 – Economic Philosophy Conference – Aix-en-Provence
Simmel’s monetary epistemology
[ Article ]
2012 – Doctoriales GDR Économie Sociologie
Liquidity as a global public good?
Media & Press
2025 – Meetup – Cercle du Coin (10th anniversary): Thesis presentation
[ Slides ]
2019 – Public talk – SQY (1h30)
Money and crypto: contemporary challenges
[ Video ]
2019 – University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Roundtable
All you wanted to know about crypto
2018 – Radio – France Inter “La tête au carré”
[ Podcast ]
2018 – ISG – “New Worlds” week
Intro to Bitcoin & crypto
2017 – “Rendez-vous de l’Histoire” – Blois
From bitcoin to blockchain: can we trust a virtual currency?
[ Program & Audio ]