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Reading e-books from clouds to couch by Cyberlibris

Lots of buzz these days around ebooks, Amazon, Google, Apple etc... Fair enough, let the Leviathans play games with and to each other ;-) 

 Cyberlibris philosophy has never changed since 2000: streaming, from clouds to couch and community driven. Simply use your WiFi or your 3G connection. This has given birth to ScholarVox Management, ScholarVox Finance, ScholarVox Sciences, ELibris, BiblioVox and last but not least SmartLibris (not to quote dedicated services like TeleproLivres).

ScholarVox Finance is the first of a series of roll out that will make all our services "device agnostic": Whether you use your PC, your Mac, your iPad, your iPhone, your iPod Touch, your Samsung Galaxy Tab, you will enjoy access to your library, to your shelves, to your friends and soon... a lot more indeed! Try ScholarVox Finance on iPad, this is a life changer for any finance scholar or professionnal.

Of course, reading on one device is not the same as reading on another device. Taking your iPhone for instance will enable you to quickly check what the Capital Asset Pricing Formula (famous CAPM) is all about or to understand why the volatility smile is a thorny issue. Now, if you sit in your couch, this is time for your iPad and confortable reading. You hold your iPad just like a book and pages fly from the clouds to your fingers. Write sticky notes and you'll be able the following day to see them on your computer at the office. Neat!

The same will soon apply to all our services.

But this is not it. Stay tune, more to come and this time in 3D!

 

 

December 07, 2010 at 10:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tags: Apple, bibliothèque numérique, Cyberlibris, digital libraries, e-books, Google Books, iPad, iPod, livre numérique, Mac, ScholarVox, SmartLibris

Solvay goes iPad, Cyberlibris and ScholarVox Finance!: Books available in streaming on iPad

SBS The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management partners with Cyberlibris in an innovative way.

Each participant of the prestigious Executive Master in Finance of SBS EM is equipped with an iPad powered by ScholarVox Finance, a rich community-driven digital library of finance and economics textbooks.

This is the first time that a full digital library will be accessible full text in streaming either on PC or on iPad!

Follow the link

Here is the Press release- Persbericht-Communiqué de presse - Solvay Brussels School goes iPad - 28-10-2010

October 28, 2010 at 07:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tags: Cyberlibris, digital library, e-book, EMF Solvay, finance, iPad, ScholarVox, Solvay, streaming

Wall Street 2, marchés de dupes: ce n'est pas que du cinéma!

Un compte-rendu original de Wall Street 2 et de cet excellent "Marchés de dupes" (Editions Maxima).

C'est ici : Aeco0049

October 04, 2010 at 09:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tags: bourguinat, briys, crise, finance, marchés financiers, économie

Marchés de dupes d'Henri Bourguinat et Eric Briys: le livre en librairie le 9 septembre!

Le communiqué de presse des Editions Maxima : CP MARCHES DE DUPES

September 02, 2010 at 06:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tags: bourguinat, briys, crise, crise économique, finance, maxima, récession, subprimes

Marchés de Dupes: pourquoi la crise se prolonge

Marchés_de_Dupes Bientôt dans toutes les bonnes librairies et bien entendu dans Cyberlibris, le dernier ouvrage d'Henri Bourguinat et d'Eric Briys (Editeur Maxima).

Non la crise n'est pas finie : l'Europe est au plus mal, le chômage perdure et les économies sont atones. En fait, la crise s'installe et s'aggrave car le jeu des marchés est devenu un marché de dupes où les financiers gagnent toujours au détriment de l'économie réelle.

Ayant pris progressivement la commande du système économique tout entier, les marchés financiers sont maintenant à même de contester la souveraineté des pays les plus vulnérables de l'Europe. Mieux encore ils sont capables de faire basculer les politiques économiques annoncées dans l'ensemble des Etats de la zone. Pour conserver leur " triple A ", certains pays vont jusqu'à virer de bord et substituer à l'ardente obligation de stimulation pour la reprise, une politique d'extrême rigueur, qui nous installe dans la déflation.


Faut-il se résigner à ce que l'on fasse ainsi main basse sur nos économies ? Les auteurs n'y sont pas prêts. Dans ce livre, ils mettent à mal le mythe de la globalisation nécessairement salvatrice et dégagent cinq chantiers pour réagir.

Leur livre n'est pas LA solution mais un préalable passionnant à toute solution !


Professeur émérite à l’Université de Bordeaux IV, Henri Bourguinat a essayé depuis de longues années de mettre en garde contre les risques de rupture du système financier. A plusieurs reprises, il a renouvelé les avertissements et anticipé la crise et lors de deux auditions à la Commission des finances de l'Assemblée nationale, il a mis l'accent sur les dangers liés au manque de traçabilité des dérivés de crédit.


Eric Briys est le co-fondateur de Cyberlibris, entreprise française pionnière du livre numérique et des bibliothèques numériques. Professeur-Associé d'économie et de finance au Ceregmia de l'Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, il a été professeur de finance à HEC pendant dix ans après avoir passé plus

August 20, 2010 at 04:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tags: crise financière, crise économique, Eric Briys, henri Bourguinat, Marchés de dupes, marchés financiers, spéculation, subprimes, too big to fail

Banking 2.0: Banking at Blackberry / iPhone speed!

Bank20_robothand1Banks are strange animals. They seem both almighty (some these days say immortal) and fragile.

Almighty and immortal because, as the current financial crisis has shown, they are more often than not too big to fail. Fragile because we the clients are both clients and claimholders. Opening a bank account is indeed tantamount to lending money to the bank while at the same time becoming a client.

This implies that banks are good as long as we trust them, as long as we believe our money is in safe hands. This notion of trust is even more crucial in an Internet driven world where bank runs can occur at Blackberry speed.

In his new book, "Bank 2.0 : How customer behaviour and technology will change the future of financial services"   , published by Marshall Cavendish, author Brett King urges the banking world to embrace the Web 2.0 challenges and opportunities that will undoubtedly shape the future financial landscape.Ninety to ninety-five per cent of bank transactions are executed electronically today. The Internet, ATMs, call centres and smartphones have become mainstream for customers. But banks still classify these as ‘alternative channels’ and maintain an organisation structure where Branch dominates thinking. Continued technology innovations, Web 2.0, social networking, app phones and mobility are also stretching traditional banking models to the limit.

BANK 2.0 reveals why customer behaviour is so rapidly changing, how branches will evolve, why cheques are disappearing, and why your mobile phone will replace your wallet—all within the next 10 years.

This book is also available in Cyberlibris' ScholarVox , the leading Web 2.0 digital library for business schools.

About the author:

Brett King is the founder of the International Academy of Financial Management, one of the fastest growing professional associations and training institutes in the world. A regular speaker at top global conferences, he is an acknowledged expert on wealth management, customer experience and retail channel distribution strategy. He also runs User Strategy, a boutique consultancy focused on improving customer interaction for leading financial services companies and businesses. Brett previously helmed the Asia division of Modern Media and the E-Business service line for Deloitte. His clients include HSBC, Citigroup, UBS, Standard Chartered, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and many more. He blogs here.

May 18, 2010 at 02:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Manager, Entreprendre, Gérer ses finances personnelles avec Cyberlibris et le Groupe Express-Roularta

Cyberlibris et le Groupe Express-Roularta s'associent pour offrir aux lecteurs de L'Expansion, de l'Entreprise et de Mieux-Vivre Votre Argent un nouveau service de bibliothèques numériques.

La première bibliothèque est plus particulièrement destinée aux lecteurs de L'Expansion et leur permet d'accéder aux meilleurs ouvrages de management francophones et anglophones. Les aficionados du management y découvriront une riche littérature dédiée au coaching, au leadership, au management international, à la Chine, au changement etc..

La deuxième est dédiée aux entrepreneurs, fidèles de l'Entreprise: du business plan, à la fiscalité en passant par le contrat de travail à un clic de souris!

Enfin, toutes les personnes soucieuses de la gestion de leurs finances personnelles trouveront réponses à leurs questions grâce à une bibliothèque numérique couvrant la co-propriété, l'investissement locatif, les SCI, l'impôt, les viagers, le droit etc...

August 12, 2009 at 04:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Plus ça change, moins ça change!

ADDRESS ON THE BANKING SYSTEM

[Delivered at a joint session of the two Houses of Congress, June 23, 1913.]

Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Congress:

It is under the compulsion of what seems to me a clear and imperative duty that I have a second time this session sought the privilege of addressing you in person. I know, of course, that the heated season of the year is upon us, that work in these chambers and in the committee rooms is likely to become a burden as the season lengthens, and that every consideration of personal convenience and personal comfort, perhaps, in the cases of some of us, considerations of personal health even, dictate an early conclusion of the deliberations of the session; but there are occasions of public duty when these things which touch us privately seem very small, when the work to be done is so pressing and so fraught with big consequence that we know that we are not at liberty to weigh against it any point of personal sacrifice. We are now in the presence of such an occasion. It is absolutely imperative that we should give the business men of this country a banking and currency system by means of which they can make use of the freedom of enterprise and of individual initiative which we are about to bestow upon them.

We are about to set them free; we must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free. We are about to set them free by removing the trammels of the protective tariff. Ever since the Civil War they have waited for this emancipation and for the free opportunities it will bring with it. It has been reserved for us to give it to them. Some fell in love, indeed, with the slothful security of their dependence upon the Government; some took advantage of the shelter of the nursery to set up a mimic mastery of their own within its walls. Now both the tonic and the discipline of liberty and maturity are to ensue. There will be some readjustments of purpose and point of view. There will follow a period of expansion and new enterprise, freshly conceived. It is for us to determine now whether it shall be rapid and facile and of easy accomplishment. This it cannot be unless the resourceful business men who are to deal with the new circumstances are to have at hand and ready for use the instrumentalities and conveniences of free enterprise which independent men need when acting on their own initiative.

It is not enough to strike the shackles from business. The duty of statesmanship is not negative merely. It is constructive also. We must show that we understand what business needs and that we know how to supply it. No man, however casual and superficial his observation of the conditions now prevailing in the country, can fail to see that one of the chief things business needs now, and will need increasingly as it gains in scope and vigor in the years immediately ahead of us, is the proper means by which readily to vitalize its credit, corporate and individual, and its originative brains. What will it profit us to be free if we are not to have the best and most accessible instrumentalities of commerce and enterprise? What will it profit us to be quit of one kind of monopoly if we are to remain in the grip of another and more effective kind? How are we to gain and keep the confidence of the business community unless we show that we know how both to aid and to protect it? What shall we say if we make fresh enterprise necessary and also make it very difficult by leaving all else except the tariff just as we found it? The tyrannies of business, big and little, lie within the field of credit. We know that. Shall we not act upon the knowledge? Do we not know how to act upon it? If a man cannot make his assets available at pleasure, his assets of capacity and character and resource, what satisfaction is it to him to see opportunity beckoning to him on every hand, when others have the keys of credit in their pockets and treat them as all but their own private possession? It is perfectly clear that it is our duty to supply the new banking and currency system the country needs, and it will need it immediately more than it has ever needed it before.

The only question is, When shall we supply it—now, or later, after the demands shall have become reproaches that we were so dull and so slow? Shall we hasten to change the tariff laws and then be laggards about making it possible and easy for the country to take advantage of the change? There can be only one answer to that question. We must act now, at whatever sacrifice to ourselves. It is a duty which the circumstances forbid us to postpone. I should be recreant to my deepest convictions of public obligation did I not press it upon you with solemn and urgent insistence.

The principles upon which we should act are also clear. The country has sought and seen its path in this matter within the last few years—sees it more clearly now than it ever saw it before—much more clearly than when the last legislative proposals on the subject were made. We must have a currency, not rigid as now, but readily, elastically responsive to sound credit, the expanding and contracting credits of everyday transactions, the normal ebb and flow of personal and corporate dealings. Our banking laws must mobilize reserves; must not permit the concentration anywhere in a few hands of the monetary resources of the country or their use for speculative purposes in such volume as to hinder or impede or stand in the way of other more legitimate, more fruitful uses. And the control of the system of banking and of issue which our new laws are to set up must be public, not private, must be vested in the Government itself, so that the banks may be the instruments, not the masters, of business and of individual enterprise and initiative.

The committees of the Congress to which legislation of this character is referred have devoted careful and dispassionate study to the means of accomplishing these objects. They have honored me by consulting me. They are ready to suggest action. I have come to you, as the head of the Government and the responsible leader of the party in power, to urge action now, while there is time to serve the country deliberately and as we should, in a clear air of common counsel. I appeal to you with a deep conviction of duty. I believe that you share this conviction. I therefore appeal to you with confidence. I am at your service without reserve to play my part in any way you may call upon me to play it in this great enterprise of exigent reform which it will dignify and distinguish us to perform and discredit us to neglect.


Source: Project Gutenberg's President Wilson's Addresses, by Woodrow Wilson

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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Title: President Wilson's Addresses

Author: Woodrow Wilson

Editor: George McLean Harper

Release Date: December 31, 2005 [EBook #17427]

Language: English

August 11, 2009 at 03:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Fama - French musings

For those who enjoy Gene Fama and Ken French voices on market efficiency, be aware that they write (since December 2008) regular posts (Q&A) on kind of two-hand blog.

Interesting musings and always instructive to see how these market efficiency hard-liners continue to spread the efficiency gospel.

Have a look at what they say about the Equity Risk Premium puzzle or how they handle Nassim Taleb's Black Swan.

Here is the RSS feed to their writings.

For those who agree to disagree with Fama and French, here is a link to Bob Shiller's books available in Cyberlibris.

By the way, finance aficionados will soon be able to access this.

June 15, 2009 at 10:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

L'Arrogance de la Finance: comment la théorie financière a produit le krach

En janvier 2009, dans toutes les bonnes librairies et dans toutes les bonnes bibliothèques numériques, l'ouvrage écrit par Eric Briys (Co-fondateur de Cyberlibris) et Henri Bourguinat (Professeur Emérite à l'université de Bordeaux-4) et intitulé "L'Arrogance de la Finance" publié aux Editions La Découverte.

Sous-titre: Comment la théorie financière a produit le krach.

Image 6 La quatrième de couverture en guise d'apéritif:

"La cause semble entendue : le krach financier d’octobre 2008 incombe aux crédits hypothécaires du marché immobilier américain, les fameux subprimes. En réalité, comme l’expliquent dans ce livre lumineux deux éminents spécialistes de la finance internationale, les racines du mal sont beaucoup plus profondes.

Mus par une sorte d’ivresse technique et une avidité pécuniaire démesurée, les professionnels des marchés ont fait de la « finance pour la finance », comme on fait de l’«art pour l’art ».

Encouragés par les économistes théoriciens de la finance, dont plusieurs prix Nobel, ils ont succombé à un véritable péché d’arrogance. En apportant leur caution scientifique aussi bien au travail des « quants » (les experts des modèles mathématiques d’ingénierie financière) qu’à celui des équipes de gestion des risques, les théoriciens ont conforté les praticiens dans le fantasme d’avoir dompté tous les risques. Or, comme le montrent les auteurs, contrairement à ses prétentions, la théorie financière est bien loin d’offrir cette garantie.

Errements des marchés, perversion du « génome théorique » de la finance et carences de la régulation ont produit une véritable dislocation du système financier. Seule une refonte profonde de celui-ci peut le guérir. Elle risque fort de se révéler longue et douloureuse pour l’« économie réelle » et ses agents, salariés et entrepreneurs."

December 15, 2008 at 05:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

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