The economy does not have eternal rules. It happened, however, at different stages of history, that millions of people have believed in their immutable value, so it is an article of faith. When this has occurred are often derived sconquassi catastrophic. This process, of which I am convinced for some time, particularly after the collapse of communism, has stimulated me some advice after reading two articles of great interest, 'one in our newspaper (June 6) of Joaquin Navarro-Valls ( "The oil spill and environmental false"), the 'other ("Courier" of June 6) by Claudio Magris on "The limitations (and strengths) of capitalism." The thesis of the first states that the most colossal environmental disaster never occurred, that of the Gulf of Mexico, was due to "an economic system, which inevitably could lead in future to any country in similar situations ... the oil spill is the symbol of the epoch-making 'impotence of politics ... when the more established democracy in the world is inert in front of the omnipotence of the multinationals ... the ecological problem, along with many other crucial issues ... can not be the banner of minority movements ... the alternative is very clear. Or the international bodies responsible for drawing up rules that apply to everyone, will be able to draw up a table of ethical principles that should address wherever the conduct of all economic operators Or is it always in front of fragile democracies that are unable to overcome the tendency of the sovereign interests of big corporations globalized. " If the reference to 'ethics is in itself acceptable, the' analysis by Navarro-Valls it passes, however, indicates the perimeter and in the lack of policy in its role to defend the general interests of 'humanity, the breaking point of balance that ensure an acceptable degree of life and coexistence. This failure of policy occurs in its incapacity to impose rules to elaboraree macro-phenomena arising and absolutely rampant with dynamic anarchist. For this reason, the oil spill in the Gulf is comparable to the financial crisis after earthquakes The United States is now in danger of blowing up the 'euro. 'S equation is the same: given a macro phenomenon, be it environmental, economic or otherwise, if the policy fails to monitor and to order it ahead, sooner or later the recklessness of the drives causes uncontrollable outbursts. Until a few decades ago it was not. The rules that the free world was given in the postwar period ensured a progressive well-being without excessive trauma to market economies, tempered by Social Welfare. The world of "real socialism" from Berlin to Vladivostok, but subject to a dictatorship that invaded every space individually and collectively, appeared in its slow march toward a material improvement through planning heavy and bureaucratic, nevertheless free from apparent crisis, thanks to 'shock of low energy consumption. Despite the relative modesty of the results, despite the coercive violence of the regime, despite the 'emergence of a spirit of revolt which would indeed be in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, millions of people continued in mondoa believe in the validity of a model that had abolished capitalist exploitation and promised a future, more or less close, to take from each according to his ability and to give each secondoi his needs. The largest and most prolonged experiment of 'man to plan and construct their own history with "scientific" method of a hallucinatory rationality, minutely adjusted, concluded with the 'auto decay that extended from the center of' marginal empire to the provinces, without outside intervention. The Way 's output, the more amazing for its originality, was the Chinese, ruthless in' abandonment of founding economic dogmas, sanctioned in 1981 by the Central Committee, in advance of the fall of the Wall, with a merciless diagnosis on the management of Mao "He committed errors of enormous scope and long duration ... confused with what was right instead of what was wrong and the people he traded with the enemy. In this lies its tragedy. " A sentence that fits to all the 'common experience. The comparison proved the triumph of global 'economy market. To sharpen its prevalence concurred susseguentee the sustained decline of social democratic model following the fiscal crisis that revealed the 'growing financial burden, a bureaucratic hypertrophy, an extension is too generalized whose total costs were intended to inflate significantly exceed the national debt . Even from this side seemed to be a competition to prevail in convincing a counter-ideology, as opposed to the socialist thinking is that reformist Soviet brand, a counter-ideology but able, too 'it, to convince millions of people to the principle that more the market is free, the more the world is in a position to enrich themselves, to grow and enjoy new discoveries and innovations, citizens to live better, to overcome inequalities. These premises promises-s' fulfillment in very great extent for several decades at the turn of the second millennium facilitated by their match with the information revolution that exponentially multiplied the effect. You can even say that the inventive creation of new financial instruments has facilitated the 'impressive take-off of many of those countries, once called "developing" from China to' India, Brazil to South Korea, now in direct competed with the first world economies. In this situation, the thought that the left could not absorb the loser syndrome, deprived of the values \u200b\u200bexpendable, voiceless in the face of a universe that he could no longer explain or even less to interpret. For the winning side off against the 'free market ideology ended up to take on the dogmatic assumption, a typical time of communism: the single thought assumed a permanence exempt from any trial, after the disaster of socialist planning in every variant. 'S inability to reflect full of historicist relativism, which would allow to grasp the nature of the enormous advantages of the market but also the catastrophic perigliosità of his anarchist unfolding outside of each rule, meant that you feel the devastating potential of a Unlimited creation of instruments of financial speculation, completely divorced of their responsiveness to the creation of real wealth from the production of goods and services. Also suffering from a lobotomy of reason turned out to be the governments, parliaments, political parties and trade unions to deal with the increasing rash of 'public debt, as there was a hidden savior of last resort in a position at the end of the bill. Faced with the crisis impaurente above us, the recipes, especially European ones, seem ineffective in starting, some harmful, especially inconclusive. Responses and the protests show little obvious and compelling, especially because those who promote does not assume the danger, to avoid the illusion effects. Yet there will be via d 'output without a new departure in economic thought that refuses to be dogma, but it is proposed, at least for the 'immediate future, of going against the current, waste the logic of the development to the bitter end to subsume that of "reasonable and compatible development" in its measurable dimensions and its effects (there are 3000 wells in the Gulf of Mexico, also a dangerous one that has broken out, but no one came to mind what would be the amount of expenditure in terms of energy savings). Is to restore the priority of policy on free and uncontrolled choice of bank and finance. Urge the 'demand to reopen a major cultural battle because they do not pass unanswered reductive diagnosis of what is happening. For example, what I take in an open letter to Franco Debenedetti and some other esteemed economists "in defense of the market and operators," in which it is said: "To argue that both market and non-abusers, to produce opacity and instability , is a sham. " In my academic inadequacy I would dispute that: speculation could endanger the entire world because the virtuous cycle of the market, in the 'era of globalization, it is screwed in dynamic unpredictable, out of any rule, control, ability to brake , dissociated, prevaricanti indeed, on any political power. This is not to reinvent socialism, even if the would have left a lot to say, but to resume Claudio Magris a nice review written by one of Giovanni Bazoli, we have quoted all 'beginning to rediscover the rules, "those general mechanisms and cold, needed to civil society so that everyone, with respect and venendone protected, can live peacefully its warm life, as he called Saba. "
The Republic June 17, 2010
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