Governmental Accounting and Austerity Policies: Accounting Representations of Public Debt and Deficit in Europe and Abroad

Seminar MAXPO

Guest speaker: Yuri BIONDI, ESCP Europe / CNRS

Discussant: Benjamin LEMOINE, IRISSO – Université Paris Dauphine / CNRS

Yuri Biondi is a tenured CNRS research fellow, appointed as research professor at ESCP Europe. A graduate of Bocconi University of Milan, Lyon University, Brescia University and Paris Sorbonne University, he is the editor in chief of the journal “Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium”. He has edited The Firm as an Entity: Implications for Economics, Accounting and Law (Routledge, 2007), a special issue on “The Socio-Economics of Accounting” (Socio-Economic Review, October 2007), as well as Accounting and Business Economics: Insights from National Traditions (Routledge, 2012). He also convenes the SASE Research Network devoted to accounting, economics and law. His research interests include economic theory, accounting and financial regulation, as well as the relationships between the economy, accounting, and finance in public and private entities.
http://yuri.biondi.free.fr/

Benjamin Lemoine is a tenured CNRS research fellow at the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales (Université Paris Dauphine). Previously, he was a post doctoral fellow at the CSO (Sciences Po), where he worked on rating agencies, after defending a dissertation on the history of sovereign debt instruments and evaluation in France (The Values of Debt: The State Struggling with Public Debt), at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (École des Mines de Paris) in 2011. By combining science and technology studies and political sociology of risk methodologies, he aims at describing how capital market devices and technical instruments perform a social, political and economic order. He has recently analyzed the settlement of the « future generations » as a new social category leading to the reorganisation of public accounting (Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 2012).

Please find the article presented by Yuri BIONDI during our next seminar here:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2245028

Please make sure to register before October 1th with Marina Abelskaïa-Graziani at marina.abelskaiagraziani@sciences-po.fr