Frédéric Lordon

Frédéric Lordon
Born	1962
Nationality	French
Institution	EHESS, France

Frédéric Lordon (born 15 January 1962) is a French economist and a CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement.

Lordon studied at the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and received his degree there in 1985. He graduated from the Institut Supérieur des Affaires in 1987.

Lordon teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris.

He has served since 2004 as a Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Lordon's work is an attempt to introduce Spinoza's concepts, such as conatus, into the study of economics. As an observer of the current crisis of capitalism, he participates in the public debate in France, proposing solutions that could ostensibly prevent other crises.

He is a member of "Economistes atterrés".  ("Appalled Economists"), a group of economists formed in 2010 who reject mainstream economics' positions, such as the efficient-market hypothesis, etc.

An early observer of the subprime mortgage crisis, he proposed the creation of a tax he labeled SLAM, for Shareholder Limited Authorized Margin, whose purpose would be to limit profits so that enterprises in the real economy are not governed "only by the interests of the market."

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