My two cents on Bitcoin

Bitcoin may be worth more than this, but I'll only give two cents for it. TL;DR The infamous cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, saw its value explode in a matter of months. It was at $1,000 / bitcoin at the beginning of 2017, $6,000 a month ago, and around $15,000 today (well, stay put, that will change again … Continue reading My two cents on Bitcoin

The economist and the doctor: Jean Tirole’s parallel and contrast

Both of us, Patrice and Gatien, have started to read the recent book (May 2016) of Jean Tirole, a French economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2014, entitled Economics of the Common Good (published in French: "Économie du bien commun"). In the first pages, we come across a parallel between economics and medicine, that calls … Continue reading The economist and the doctor: Jean Tirole’s parallel and contrast