Disorder and Public Concern Around Globalization

Disorder and Public Concern Around Globalization examines the contrast between an idealized vision and a realistic view of globalization. Both are inscribed in the contemporary debate within political and economic theory. This opposition highlights the conditions under which wealth creation and equitable distribution can outweigh the mere diversion of value and deepening of inequalities.

This book shows how facts and ideas can explain the shape currently taken by globalization, the latest innovation of market economies. Still, the unpredictable path followed depends on the attitudes of entrepreneurs and capital holders who arbitrate between short- and long-term timescales, between value creation and rent collection: attitudes driven by the same organizations and institutions that shape markets, structure the social order and ensure the viability of the current transition.

1. The New Transition.
2. The Constraints of Innovation.
3. Entrepreneurs at the Crossroads.
4. The Time of Finance.
5. The Return of Inequalities and Rents.
6. The State in View of the Globalization Challenge.
7. Liberalism Revisited.

Mario Amendola is Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Jean-Luc Gaffard is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, researcher at OFCE Sciences Po and honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France.