Simon Gollier

Banking Regulation. Toulouse - Louvain(-Beijing) - Paris - Frankfurt

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Midnight in Paris. Waiting for my Macdonalds order. Two Students next to me are discussing the difference between the Value at Risk and the Expected Shortall. The future is bright.

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@DMdoubleV @gine_robert Quand tu joues la France en 1789 et que le jeu lance l’Été de Vivaldi alors que tu t’apprête à transformer l’Europe en terrain de jeu personnel avec ta demi douzaine de généraux 5 étoiles

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@JamesWHankins1 ‘A Culture of Growth’ is an outstanding read. It is also depressing, since the cultural preconditions Mokyr identifies (notably an elite consensus that science improves the human condition) have arguably receded from the mainstream

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Found this gem in a cemetery in Japan - a suspicious buddha statue with a toddler holding what looks a lot like a Christian cross. Claude tells me that Buddha statues with children were repurposed by Japanese Christians to avoid persecution.

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@eigenrobot 🫡

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@eigenrobot Also we have tons of testimonies from survivors and afaik none confirmed mutilations (note that the article claiming they happened has the honesty to say the intel comes from secondhand sources)

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@eigenrobot

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@__paleologo Silence is number 10

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@INArteCarloDoss Indeed straight from the third world playbook : preaching moral purity while being absolute crooks. Drain the swamp they say

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Bloomberg, FT and the Economist, who should know better, all went with the « Paris left wing governance good because Paris green », and yet the correct take is this

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@jessesingal This is fiction but there is such a scene in Life and Fate by V.Grossmann, and it’s arguably the point of the book to show that Soviet and Nazi were ideological pals

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@jeuasommenulle

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Distribution of the "Royal Game of Ur" the most popular board game in the Bronze Age.
Copies of the game were found from Nubia to Iran and on the Island of Cyprus.

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Why the Industrial Revolution did not happen in China, according to Tabellini, Mokyr and Greif (2025)

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The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; when they are dead, he reverently sacrifices to them; his chief thought is how to the end of life not to disgrace them. (BR, Ji Yi 4)

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La gauche a inventé le concept du « devoir de vigilance » forçant les employeurs FR à s’assurer que leurs activités respectent les règles ESG.

Apparemment cette responsabilité ne s’applique pas à ses collaborateurs qui sautent à pieds joints sur la tête d’un adversaire politique

[20 Minutes @20Minutes]

« Il n’en est pas question. En vertu de quelles règles un employeur devrait être responsable des actes commis par ses salariés ? »
➡️ https://t.co/voY3eeKocX

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@ElonBachman No worries, you were the inspiration anyway ! :)

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@ElonBachman evergreen :
https://t.co/pMySBuBTyl

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France if Louis XIV didn’t expel the Huguenots in 1685

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What a retarded take. « We are fading into irrelevance, but we’re actually better because we’re all equally poor and we have more women in our Boards of Directors ».

I would rather applaud Rubio than this self congratulatory weak sauce from my European leaders

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.@alexstubb on EU competitiveness

"Economists look at crude GDP... but I look at our Gini coefficients.. & whether it's justice, least corrupt, open, welfare, environment, open media, gender equality.. I don't buy the argument we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy"

MSC '26