When
it comes to using the term "globalization", we usually refer to a complex
economic phenomenon for which the world as a whole is/should be/could be a just
one market, in which there is an exchange of goods - meant as financial estates,
real goods and services - following the rules of the mechanism of demand and
supply and fixation of prices wherever those variables meet (Iiberism and
neo-Iiberism).
Globalization, which, with its multinational enterprises and joint ventures, can
be seen as an internationalization of capitalism,and needs, and in the meantime
gives rise to, an increasing omologation on a world-wide level of the demand of
real goods, a standardization of anthropological-cultural behaviours, a crisis
of the Nation - State and its sovereignity. It needs an integration in the
activities and targets of enterprises having to supply to always more global
demands but also having to satisfy purchasers' eventual particular requirements:
"think global, act local", from which the neologism "global". Globalization,
which implies delocalization of work, so that the same work is requested and
transported from a place to another in the earth depending on the convenience,
wouldn't be practicable without the presence of quick communications (Internet).
By the way, it can be in fact noted how just the informatic techniques, not only
making information pass but also determining and reinforcing demands, make, in
their turn, delocalization of virtual work possible, moving it quickly from a
zone to another in the world, always following the mechanism of demand and
supply and price.
Historically speaking, globalization is the last phase, because it comes after
the others, not because it is definitive , of modernization that, begun with the
discovery of America, has passed through various moments characterized by
capitalistic system, which, in its evolution, has affirmed itself nowadays as
the referral standard model against other possible models.
Unification of the world, by the tendencial point of view of a unic market, does
not delete (many scholars instead think it favours) disparities among its areas
or those in the single entities: it happens because economic mechanisms in a
liberistic point of view do not depend on social re-baIance nor on resources.
]ust think of actual crisis of Welfare State, caused by the economic
internationalization and the neo-liberism that distinguishes it.
What is it?