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1
On the sustainability of global development
  • Alessandro Vercelli
  • Department of Economic Policy, Finance and
    Development
  • University of Siena
  • vercelli_at_unisi.it

2
Basic References
  • -Borghesi, S. and A. Vercelli, 2008, Sustainable
    Globalization. Social and Environmental
    conditions, Palgrave Macmillan
  • (Alessandro Vercelli e Simone Borghesi, 2005, La
    sostenibilità dello sviluppo globale, Carocci
    editore, Roma.)
  • -Stiglitz, J.E., 2006, Making Globalization work,
    Norton, New York
  • (Stiglitz, J.E., 2006, La globalizzazione che
    funziona, Einaudi, Torino)

3
FIRST PART
  • BASIC CONCEPTS
  • AND THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

4
Approach
  • On globalisation we cannot say anything in
    general
  • ? different phases characterised by different
    features and effects
  • ? any appraisal is relative to a particular point
    of view. My own

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PHASES OF GLOBALISATION
  • I want to clarify whether
  • the recent phase of globalisation is consistent
    with the requirement of sustainable development
  • the current phase of globalisation is
    sustainable or requires substantial modifications
  • ? policy implications

5
Definition of economic globalisation
  • Process of progressive integration of world
    markets based on the free movement across borders
    of goods, services, and production factors

THREE PERIODS 1820-1915 FIRST
GLOBALISATION 1915-1945 DE-GLOBALISATION
1945-2007? SECOND GLOBALISATION
6
The three phases of economic globalisation the
world exports
Source Maddison (2001) updated using WTO (2001)
7
The three phases of globalisation the stock of
Foreign Direct Investment
Source Obstfeld and Taylor (2004)
8
Sustainable development definitions
  • Development
  • process of expansion of individual
    economic freedom (Sen, 1999)
  • Sustainable development
  • Development is sustainable if it satisfies
    present-day needs without compromising the
    capacity of future generations to satisfy their
    needs (Brundtland Report, 1987)

9
Sustainable development
  • Foundations

DISTRIBUTIVE EQUITY
CHOICE FREEDOM
  • Income
  • Wealth
  • Resources

2 CONDITIONS
INTER-GENERATIONAL
INTRA-GENERATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERION
SOCIAL CRITERION
10
Ethical and economic foundations the social
condition
  • equal access to the basic economic opportunities
    ethical foundations
  • this is also a fundamental condition of economic
    efficiency
  • -prerequisite for a well-functioning competitive
    market guarantees that the winners of the
    economic competition are actually the best
    participants as each of them plays on a level
    playing field
  • -poverty (malnutrition) implies a restriction of
    the option set reducing the potential
    contribution of poor people to economic
    efficiency and wealth
  • among poor people who cannot afford a good
    education there are potentially good scientists,
    engineers, physicians, managers and so on
  • -social and political tensions that have negative
    effects on income growth
  • (Alesina and Perotti, 1996 Benhabib and
    Rustichini, 1996)

11
Ethical and economic foundations the
environmental condition
  • similarly environmental degradation has adverse
    economic effects
  • ? health of people ? ? productivity
  • ? land productivity
  • poverty-environment trap the poor rely heavily
    on the direct exploitation of natural resources
  • ? environmental degradation ?? poverty ??
    environmental degradation

12
The influence of globalisation on the conditions
of sustainability
  • The main influence is through the impact of
    globalisation on income
  • ? positive correlation for sound theoretical
    reasons
  • ? extension of markets ? ? division of labour ? ?
    productivity
  • ? scale and scope economies ?? efficiency
  • ? across borders and domestic competition
  • ? diffusion of information and technology across
    borders
  • Globalisation offers opportunities of development
    provided that the country adopting an outward
    trade orientation complies with a few crucial
    conditions rule of law, institutions to monitor,
    control and regulate markets
  • Notwithstanding this proviso, the empirical
    evidence generally finds a positive correlation
    e.g. Bhagwati (2004), Wolf (2004)

13
Orientation of trade and growth rate of GDP
1963-1992
Average rates of growth of per capita GDP In developing countries Average rates of growth of per capita GDP In developing countries Average rates of growth of per capita GDP In developing countries
Orientation of trade 1963-1973 1973-1985 1980-1992
Open to trade 6.9 5.9 6.4
Moderately open 4.9 1.6 2.3
Moderately protectionist 4 1.7 -0.2
Protectionist 1.6 -0.1 -0.4
Fig. 2
Source World Bank
14
Evolution of per capita GDP
Per capita GDP United States
Per capita GDP United Kingdom
Per capita GDP (thousands of )
Per capita GDP (thousands of )
Fig. 3
Source Lomborg (2001)
15
Impact of globalisation on the social conditions
of sustainability
  • 1a) BETWEEN
  • 1) INEQUALITY COUNTRIES
  • 1b) WITHIN

16
Inequality indexes of individual incomes 1820-1992
Theil inequality coefficients
global inequality ()
Inequality between countries
Inequality within countries
() Global inequality is the sum of the other two
curves
Fig. 1
Source Bourguignon and Morisson (2002)
17
Correlation between globalisation and inequality?
  • The global index suggests a positive answer
  • however, as soon as we decompose it in its two
    determinants, and consider different phases, the
    outlook becomes more complex and articulated
  • Between-country inequality
  • Correlation in the 19th century
  • In the 20th century the positive correlation
    breaks down
  • globalisation has two opposite effects on the
    inequality
  • between globalising and non-globalising
    countries ?? inequality
  • and within globalising countries ? ?inequality
  • ? the weight of the second effect progressively
    increased during the second globalisation as a
    consequence of the spreading of globalisation
  • negative correlation? Question not yet settled
    (Branko Milanovic, 2002)

18
Correlation between globalisation and inequality?
  • Within-country inequality mild positive
    correlation
  • the aggregate index conceals the empirical
    pattern of groups of countries
  • new globalising countries India, China, Russia
    ? inequality
  • most OECD countries ? U pattern since 1915
  • 1915-1971 ? inequality (solidarity from wars,
    depression, welfare state)
  • 1975-2005 ? inequality (neoliberal policies)
  • ? I will focus on the second empirical trend that
    has important policy implications

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Variation in within-country income inequality
1975-1985 1985-1995
1975-1985 1985-1995
AUSTRIA 0
BELGIUM
CANADA 0
CHECK REP. --
DANMARCK
FINLAND -
FRANCE -
GERMANY -
UNGHERIA
ITALY --
JAPAN 0
COREA
HOLLAND 0
NEW ZELAND
NORWAY -
POLAND 0
SWEDEN -
HIGH INCREASE gt 15
INCREASE 7-15
MODERATE INCREASE 2-7
0 NO VARIATION -2 - 2
- MODERATE REDUCTION 2-7
-- REDUCTION 7-15
--- STRONG REDUCTION gt 15
Fig. 4
Source OECD
20
Inequality in the U.K., 1939-1996 ()
56
52
48
44
40
36
Gini index
32
28
24
20
16
1975
1985
1945
1955
1965
1995
1935
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Fig. 5
Source Brandolini (2002)
21
Inequality in the USA, 1929-1996
56
52
48
44
40
Gini index
36
32
28
24
20
16
1975
1985
1915
1925
1935
1945
1955
1965
1995
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
1920
2000
Fig. 6
Source Brandolini (2002)
22
Share of income (quintiles 1985-1995)
MIN. INCOMES AVER. INCOMES MAX. INCOMES
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM ---
CANADA
DENMARK -
FINLAND ---
FRANCE -
GERMANY -
HUNGARY
ITALY --- -
JAPAN -
MEXICO ---
HOLLAND -
NORWAY - -
SWEDEN -
TURKEY - ---
U. K. - -
U.S.A. -
INCREASE gt 1.5
INCREASE between 0.5 E 1.5
VARIATION between -0.5 and 0.5
- DECREASE between 0.5 E 1.5
--- DECREASE gt 1.5
Fig. 7
Source OECD
23
The impact of globalisation on the social
condition of sustainability
  • The indirect effect on inequality
  • the environmental Kuznets Curve

24
Indirect correlation between globalisation and
within-country inequality
  • Extensive empirical literature on within-country
    inequality studying its correlation with per
    capita income
  • Since there is a strong correlation between
    globalisation and per capita income
  • we can interpret the above as an indirect
    correlation between within-country inequality and
    globalisation
  • Literature initiated by the Nobel-laureate Simon
    Kuznets who suggested in 1955 the conjecture that
    within-country inequality increases in the first
    phase of industrial development but decreases in
    a second phase

25
KUZNETS CURVE (1955)
Inequality
Social carrying capacity
Per capita income
Fig. 9
26
KUZNETS CURVE (1955)
  • Plausibility ? take-off (triggered by the
    adoption of outward-oriented policies)
  • -diffusion takes time
  • -urbanisation
  • -growing pressure in favour of redistribution
  • (progressive taxation, transfers, welfare
    state)
  • Optimist message the problem tends to disappear
    spontaneously
  • Kuznets conjecture corroborated by econometric
    studies up to the 1970s
  • since the early 1980s new econometric studies
    have progressively weakened the empirical support
    (emergence of the U-pattern in OECD countries)
  • historical explanation the KC described a
    specific historical process and not general
    tendencies intrinsic in the process of
    globalisation? policy is needed

27
The impact of globalisation on the social
condition of sustainability
  • The effects on poverty

28
Impact of globalisation on the social conditions
of sustainability 2) poverty
  • we have to reject the optimist message of the
    Kuznets curve
  • however, according to many economists, in order
    to study the social effects of globalisation we
    should focus not on inequality but on poverty
  • Conviction based on the Bhagwati hypothesis
    and prescription
  • Countries have similar distribution of income ?
    we can only reduce poverty by increasing the rate
    of growth of income (Bhagwati, 2004, p.66)

29
Impact of globalisation on the social conditions
of sustainability 2) poverty
  • misleading hypothesis Bourguignon and Morisson
    (p.733) calculated that
  • had the world distribution of income remained
    unchanged since 1820, the number of poor people
    would be less than 1/4th than it is today and the
    number of extremely poor people would be less
    than 1/8th of what is today
  • ? we should try hard to realize a more
    egalitarian growth

30
The long-run trend of poverty(lt 2 a day)
Source Bourguignon and Morisson (2002)
31
The long-run trend of extreme poverty (lt 1
a day)
Source Bourguignon and Morisson (2002)
32
Poverty in the world from 1987 to 1998
Extreme poverty (headcount)
100 75 50 25 0 -25 -50 -75 -100 -125 -15
0
Variations
East Asia and Pacific Area
Europe and central Asia
Latin America and Caraibi
Middle East and North Africa
South Asia
Sub-saharian Africa
Fig. 10
Source World Bank
33
Variation rates of poverty (1985-1995)
Pre-tax transferts
Post-tax transfers
Poverty is defined as the number of persons who
detain less than 50 of average income of total
popolation. Taxes include all direct taxes on
incomes, included social security contributions.
The transfers include all the benefits deriving
from money transfers.
Fig. 8
Source OECD
34
The impact of globalisation on the environmental
condition of sustainability
  • The indirect effect
  • the environmental Kuznets Curve

35
Environmental KUZNETS curve (Panayotou, 1993)
  • No historical series of comprehensive indexes of
    environmental deterioration
  • ? correlation with specific indexes of
    environmental deterioration
  • Some of them behave as in the KC ? environmental
    Kuznets curve
  • Plausibility
  • -take-off shift of labour from agriculture to
    heavy industry
  • then increase of light industry and services
  • -growing pressure of final users and electorate
  • Econometric studies seemed to corroborate the
    hypothesis but then it was falsified in many
    cases
  • - it works only when the environmental effects
    are local
  • - recently N-shaped curves

36
Environmental KUZNETS curve
Environmental deterioration
Environmental carrying capacity
Per capita income
Fig. 11
37
Environmental KUZNETS curve (sulfur dioxide)
1972
Sulfur Dioxide ?g/m3
1986
Per capita income (PPP)
DEVELOPMENT
Fig. 12
Source Shafik (1994)
38
Environmental KUZNETS curve (particulate matter)
1972
1986
Per capita income (PPP)
DEVELOPMENT
Fig. 13
Source Shafik (1994)
39
Environmental KUZNETS curve (coliform bacteria)
Thousands coliforms per 100ml
1986
1979
Per capita income (PPP)
DEVELOPMENT
Fig. 14
Source Shafik (1994)
40
Generalisation of the environmental Kuznets curve
  • Environmental sustainability relation
  • ED growth pc income growth intensity of ED
    growth population growth
  • where ED is a global index of environmental
    degradation pc is per capita
  • Condition of long-term global environmental
    sustainability (ED growth 0 )
  • pc income growth - (intensity of ED growth
    population growth)
  • ? positive growth of pc income may be sustainable
    only if
  • negative growth of ED intensity gt population
    growth

41
Crucial requisite of sustainabilty
Development is sustainable only if
Reduction rate of ED intensity
Rate of growth of population
gt
More likely in developed countries
Calls for
  • Technologic change
  • Consumption

Increasingly eco-compatible
42
The environmental sustainability relation and the
energy problem
  • The condition for longterm energy sustainability
    is given by
  • pc income growth - (population growthenergy
    intensity growthCO2 energy intensity
    growth)
  • or
  • income growth (energy intensity growth ED
    growth)
  • We may define max sustainable growth of income
  • Max sustainable income growth (energy
    intensity growth ED energy intensity
    growth)
  • Sustainability Gap actual income growth max
    sustainable income growth

43
The sustainability gap in the current model of
energy production and consumption
Average observed values for each decade
(projection 2001-2005) Source Energy Information
Administration
44
SECOND PART
  • An Attempt at Causal Interpretation

45
Prevailing empirical correlations
SUSTAINABILITY OF DEVELOPMENT
-
-
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION
INEQUALITY AND POVERTY

/- (Kuznets) /-


PER CAPITA INCOME

GLOBALISATION
46
Tentative answer to the first question
Postwar globalisation two phases
WITHIN-COUNTRY INEQUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION
1945-1971 MODERATE IMPROVEMENT WORSENING
1980-2002 WORSENING PARTIAL IMPROVEMENT
NEITHER OF THE PHASES OF POSTWAR
GLOBALISATION MAY BE CONSIDERED AS FULLY
SUSTAINABLE ALTHOUGH FOR DIFFERENT REASONS
47
Towards a causal analysis
STATISTICAL CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY
CAUSALITY
CAUSAL ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC RATIONALE OF GLOBALISATION
THE INTEGRATION OF LOCAL MARKETS IN A UNIFIED
GLOBAL COMPETITIVE MARKET IN ORDER TO REALISE THE
OPTIMAL ALLOCATION OF WORLD RESOURCES AND TO
MAXIMISE THE WELFARE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY
48
Towards a causal analysis
The validity of the argument depends on a series
of conditions. In particular
  • Goods and services
  • Production factors
  • Technology and information

Effective mobility across countries
  • A) barriers against imports from developing
    countries (agriculture, textiles)
  • B) Strong restrictions to the international
    mobility of labour
  • C) Free movement of capital without distinction
    between FDI and speculative flows

Anomalies
49
ANOMALIES
  • A) according to estimates of the UN (1994) these
    protectionist measures produce a transfer of
    wealth equal to the overall flow of foreign aid
  • B) these restrictions are much more severe now
    than at the time of the first globalisation
  • ? last resort equalizing instrument
  • precondition of a competitive market (laissez
    faire, laissez passer, Smith)

50
ANOMALIES
  • C) -FDI factor of development SF (speculative
    flows) source of instability dramatic change in
    their proportion
  • Early 1980s FDI 90
  • Now much less than 10 while daily SFs exceed the
    sum of reserves in foreign currency of G7
    countries
  • Lucas paradox
  • according to the standard neoclassical theory
    capital should flow from rich to the poor
    countries until the return to investment is
    equalized in all countries
  • in reality the opposite happens (notwithstanding
    the higher marginal product of capital in
    emerging countries)
  • role of perceived risk and institutions

51
Short-termism
  • the recent process of globalisation strengthened
    short-termism
  • a) Growing importance of finance
  • b) Greater flexibility of labour markets and
    industrial relations
  • c) Incentives to top managers and directors

52
Short-termism
  • Growing importance of finance
  • Goldsmith FIR from about 1 in the early 1980s
    (G5) to 2/3 2000s
  • Liberalisation of capital flows almost complete
    without distinction between FDI and speculative
    flows ? change of proportion
  • Stock exchange markets unified by Internet ??
    herd behaviour
  • ? huge gains and losses from short-term
    speculative transactions

53
Short-termism
  • managers frequent revisions
  • b) deregulation labour markets
    workers short-term horizon
  • short-term indexes (stock options)
  • c) incentives to top managers
  • ? short-term objective function
  • Short-termism jeopardises sustainability
  • ? liberalisation of capital
    account
  • globalisation contributed to these trends
  • ? deregulation

54
Regulation of international markets
  • the effects of globalisation depend
    crucially on the regulation rules of
  • the international markets
  • Bretton Woods period (1945 - 1971)
  • two phases
  • Washington consensus (1980 - 2000)
  • Different philosophies of market regulation

55
Regulation of international markets
The Bretton Woods System
  • FIXED EXCHANGE RATES IN ORDER TO STABILIZE THE
    EXPECTATIONS
  • LIBERALIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES BASED
    ON THE GATT AGREEMENTS
  • COUNTERCYCLICAL INTERVENTIONS OF IMF IN ORDER TO
    AVOID EFFECTIVE DOMAND DEFICIENCIES
  • STRUCTURAL INTERVENTIONS
  • OF THE WORLD BANK MAINLY TO FIGHT POVERTY

ACTIVE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETS IN
ORDER TO AVOID MARKET FAILURES
56
Regulation of international markets
The Washington consensus
  1. FLEXIBLE CURRENCY EXCHANGES
  2. INSTITUTION OF OMC TO COMPLETE THE LIBERALISATION
    OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
  3. NEW PRESCRIPTIONS OF IMF DEREGULATION,
    PRIVATISATION AND AUSTERITY
  4. SUBORDINATION OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE WB TO
    THE COMPLIANCE TO IMF CONDITIONS

PRIVATISATION AND DEREGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL
MARKETS TO AVOID STATE FAILURES
57
Regulation of international markets
The Washington consensus
  • A. THE WTO URGED THE REPEAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND
    SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE
    INTERPRETED AS
  • NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
  • B. THE IMF URGED STRICT BUDGETARY POLICIES EVEN
    TO THE COST OF INTERRUPTING
  • SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT AND TRANSFERS

THE NEW POLICY PHILOSOPHY MAY JEOPARDISE
SUSTAINABILITY
58
Microeconomic aspects
SUSTAINABLE FIRM HAS UN A LONG-PERIOD TIME
HORIZON AND TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE INTERESTS OF
ALL STAKEHOLDERS MAX LIFE EXPECTATION AND
AVERAGE PROFITABILITY
DEVELOPMENT IS SUSTAINIBILE ONLY IF IT IS BASED
ON A FABRIC OF SUSTAINABLE FIRMS
59
Dow Jones indexes
350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0
Dec-93 Sept-94 june-95 Mar-96 Dec-96 Sep
t-97 June-98 Mar-99 Dec-99 Sept-00 June-
01 Mar-02
DJSI World SUSTAINABILITY INDEX
Index
DJ World GENERAL INDEX
Fig. 15
Sourcewww.sustainability-index.com
Total returns normalized to 100
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The Influence of Globalisation
  • The growing spatial fragmentation of productive
    activity made increasingly difficult the active
    control of stakeholders
  • Progressive shortening of the time horizon of
    economic decisions
  • The new regulation rules of International markets
    contributed to weaken the sustainability of
    development
  • The case of banking shadow finance

61
Concluding remarks
  • The Implications for Economic, Environmental and
    Social Policies

62
Tentative answer to the second question
  • The confrontation pro or con globalisation is
    misleading
  • The problems depend on
  • Incompleteness of globalisation
  • Anomalies of globalisation
  • Inadequate regulation of markets

The recent process of globalisation is not fully
sustainable it can and should be made
sustainable with apt interventions of economic,
environmental and institutional policy
63
General policy interventions that descend from
the analysis
  • Strengthen the sustainability of world
    development
  • more egalitarian growth rapidly reducing poverty
  • vigorous reduction in the intensity of
    environmental deterioration
  • Defence and corroboration of genuine
    environmental and social constraints in
    cross-country trade
  • Elimination of unjustified constraints to labour
    mobility
  • Control of speculative flows and/or of their
    effects
  • Incentives to CSR and enforcement of minimal
    standards
  • Incentives to the financial system to channel
    saving towards sustainable investment

64
The basic policy dilemma
  • Interventions such as those mentioned above may
    be implemented by
  • national policy authorities
  • but in the short period they could damage the
    national interests
  • or powerful particular interests
  • this problem extends to the global economy the
    dilemma
  • should the markets be regulated by some sort of
    public authority?

65
Paradigm pro-regulation
  • Dominant paradigm in the Bretton Woods period
  • standard objection
  • -omniscient
  • state ? state failures
  • -benevolent
  • defence democratic control

STATE
government
regulation
interventions
reaction
market failures
economic power
Invisible hand
MARKET
66
Paradigm pro-deregulation
  • Dominant paradigm in the Washington consensus
    era
  • standard objection
  • the real market is not the
  • ? market failures
  • perfect competitive market
  • defence reduction of the gap

STATE
government
deregulation
privatisation

economic power
state failures
reaction
Invisible hand
MARKET
67
The gap between real markets and the ideal
model of a perfectly competitive market
  • distribution
  • a) perfect competition market limits
  • incompleteness ? externalities
  • ideal perfectly competitive market
  • b) wide gap between
  • real markets strong uncertainty, bounded
    rationality, transaction costs,
    irreversibility of time...
  • c) the gap may be reduced but not fully
    eliminated (e.g. incompleteness)
  • ? markets, even global markets, have to be
    regulated


68
Traditional paradigms
  • Alternation at least since Adam Smith
  • Both paradigms are simplistic, unilateral and
    misleading
  • mistaken foundations of the sources of economic
    power and failures
  • State hierarchical and centralised
    (government)
  • trad. sources
  • Market impersonal - decentralised
    (invisible hand)
  • third source ? Firms hierarchical and
    centralised (governance)
  • -different from the state control of
    stakeholders
  • -different from the market Coase (1937)
  • ? corporate failures (short-termism C
    Irresponsibility)

69
the three sources of economic power and failures
70
Concluding remarks on the policy dilemma
  • Very often deregulation and privatisation
    translated not in more power to the market
  • more power to firms (mainly to the big ones,
    often transnational)
  • this did not mean more competition collusion,
    insider trading, conflicts of interests,
    regulatory capture, and other corporate failures
    undermine competition
  • neither less power to the state
  • -the share of public expenditure did not
    diminish what has changed is the structure of
    taxation and public expenditure in a less
    egalitarian way
  • -collusion between particular corporate and
    political interests crony capitalism is by no
    means a distinctive trait of developing countries
    (Bhagwati, 2004)

71
The policy dilemma and globalisation
  • What we need both at the national and
    international level is
  • more effective competition on a really level
    playing field (?? inequality and poverty)
  • more democratic control on government from
    citizens
  • more democratic control on corporations from
    stakeholders
  • the problem is not so much the dislocation of
    nominal power between the three sources, but the
    quality of the management of power at the
    national and global level
  • -genuinely competitive markets
  • government
  • -accountability and transparency of
  • corporate governance
  • under these conditions globalisation may offer
    crucial opportunities of development guaranteeing
    at the same time its sustainability

72
Theoretical presuppositions1) assertions on the
market
  • -distribution
  • a) perfect-competition market intrinsic limits
  • -externalities
  • ideal of perfect competition (GEM)
  • b) wide gap between market
  • real incompleteness, strong uncertainty,
    limited rationality, externalities,
    transaction costs, irreversibility, etc.
  • c) The gap may be narrowed but not fully closed
    (e.g. incompleteness)

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2) liberalism vs. neoliberalism
  • a) classic
  • ß) updated (Keynes, Pigou, etc.)
  • Liberalism ? discontinuity
  • ?) neoliberalism
  • a) e ß) endorse the three assertions
  • ?) rejects or underscores them
  • externalities ? property relations
  • a) optimism
  • distribution collateral effects of growth
    (temporary Kuznets)
  • b) minimization (e.g. contestable markets)
  • c) no limits in principle (e.g. Arrow securities
    to complete markets)

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3) Policy implications
  • a) public interventions inevitable
  • Liberalism b) ? gap but further
    interventions necessary ? ? well-being
  • c) abolition of unjustified constraints
  • a) avoid public Interventions (state
    failures in principle worse)
  • Neoliberalism b) reducible through
    deregulation and privatization
  • c) completely superable completion of
    markets, etc.

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4) Postwar globalizations
  • i) liberal (Keynesian updated liberalism)
    1945/1971
  • Globalization
  • ii) neoliberalism 1980/2007
  • i) ? welfare state
  • Social condition
  • ii) ? welfare state
  • i) ? awareness
  • Environmental condition
  • ii) ? environmental policies rise and
    decline
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