Teaching & Masterclasses
2025 – MasterClass – Alyra : Discreet governance of Bitcoin [ Slides ]
2023 – Live Philo – Alyra : Political governance through crypto crises [ Slides ]
2020 – Monetary workshop – Strate Design School Anthropocene and money: the IMF theory and ecological crisis
2020 – Monetary workshop – Strate Design School Anthropocene and money: the IMF theory and ecological crisis
2016–2019 – EHESS Seminar: “Monetary Spaces, Parallel Currencies, Crypto-currencies and Institutional Crises”
Lead instructor, EHESS central seminar (24h/year, 6 ECTS – 12 sessions annually)
[ Syllabus PDF ]
Sessions:
PART I: What theoretical framework for money? The hypothesis of money as an institution
Session 1 – Introduction: The economic analysis of money and the need for a return to institutionalist theories. – [ Slides ] [ Video 2018 ]
Session 2 – Money as an institution and its invariants: the debt/trust/sovereignty triptych. – [ Slides ]
Session 3 – Money, currencies and representations: practices and representations forming more or less homogenous monetary areas. – [ Slides ] [ Video 2019 ]
Session 4 – The contemporary institutionalisation of the hierarchical monetary system and the tension at the centre of sovereignty. – [ Slides ]
PART II: Parallel currencies as both a response to and a symptom of local monetary problems
Session 5 – General presentation of the phenomenon of parallel currencies and elements of definition. – [ Slides ]
Session 6 – Barter, a singular monetary device in response to situated constraints: the case of Russia in the 1990s. – [ Slides ]
Session 7 – Social currencies, monetary reappropriation and economic revitalisation. – [ Slides ] [ Video 2017 ]
Session 8 – Demonetisation in Greece and Varoufakis' Plan B. – [ Slides ]
PART III: The crypto-currency revolution in terms of institutional arrangements
Session 9 – Bitcoin, its blockchain or the advent of crypto-currencies. – [ Slides ]
Session 10 – General presentation of the crypto-currency phenomenon and its evolution. – [ Slides ]
Session 11 – ‘Code is Law’ and the return of discretion: the problem of “forks” through the example of Ethereum. – [ Slides ]
Session 12 – Conclusion: the thorny issue of regulation - between defiance and trust. – [ Slides ]
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 : crypto introduction lectures (18h/year)
[ Applied Theorical Framework ]
2018 – Teaching – ESGI : crypto & monetary theory modules (15h)
[ Institutional theory | Crypto economy ]
Academic Communications & Conferences
2025 – Workshop “De Crésus à Nakamoto” – Lyon
From liberal dreams to carnivalesque monetization in Bitcoin
[ Slides ]
2022 – Crypto & Alt Currencies Conference – Lyon
Polycentric governance revealed by crisis (Keynote)
[ Slides ]
2021 – ACPR – Fintech Risk Suptech
Blockchain governance webinar
[ Slides ]
2019 – Workshop – Brussels
From cryptocurrencies to digital assets
[ Slides ]
2019 – French-Russian Seminar – Moscow
Digital currency futures 10 years after Bitcoin
[ Slides ] | Video | Traduction_Ru
2018 – French-Russian Seminar – Moscow
Digital currencies between dissent and absorption
[ Program ] | Video | Traduction_Ru
2018 – IV International Conference on Complementary and Social Currencies – Barcelona
The crypto-currencies in the light of parallels, 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 ]
Georg SIMMEL's philosophy of money: debates and challenges for a contemporary monetary institutionalism
[ 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?
🎙️ Public Talks, Interviews & Outreach
2025 – Meetup – Cercle du Coin (10th anniversary) : Thesis Presentation
[ Slides ]
2019 – Public talk – SQY (1h30)
Money and crypto: contemporary challenges
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
Can we trust virtual currencies?