" trade, which enriched the citizens in England, helped to make them free, and this freedom has expanded trade in turn .
Voltaire (1694-1778)
The best and worst charlatans experts have said almost everything about "globalization." In France, it is inexhaustible goodwill of all those who gave themselves the monopoly of legitimate thought and activism. The " Globalization is alternately regarded as the engine of global economic growth, responsible development inequalities between rich and poor countries, burst factor of national identity and homogenization of the planet, the cause of all our misfortunes and chance of the new millennium: it happens over a day without that "globalization" was convened at the tribunal of "civic consciousness"!
exist in French public opinion, a strong current of sympathy for the ideas and anti-globalization movements. Catherine Picar, co-authored a bill to ban sects in France, explained in a recent past: " ago, with the sects, a wave of destabilization of democracies. All this is consistent with U.S. imperialism, the WTO, advanced liberalism (sic!) [1]. Associate WTO advanced liberalism is significant confusion prevailing on the modern mind, so that the WTO is an intergovernmental organization which aims precisely to regulate commerce, thereby becoming an instrument of disguised protectionism and arena of all economic patriotism. However, economic patriotism is the first step towards the economic war, the antithesis of free exchange. Such denunciation
permanent, which borders on demonization, globalization is more akin to the conspiracy theory to a rigorous analysis. Consider first a statement of basic economic phenomena have no nationality. The lives of men in society is driven by two trends that are closely related to the essential nature of man: the tendency to exchange the one hand, the search for efficiency which induces the inevitable development of techniques other hand. These two trends are intimately related because the same desire and need to trade based on the interests of efficiency to the extent that it is inefficient to try to do everything yourself. This is true for an individual, a family, a village ... or a country. Human communities (families, cities, countries) and organizations (companies, associations, foundations) were born of this need.
Since the dawn of time (and it did not start with the industrial revolution which has seen only accelerated a process which began from the Neolithic), man has sought to improve living conditions in response to the fundamentally hostile natural environment. This trend is driving technical innovation and improving the material conditions of life regardless of the geopolitical division that has prevailed in the world. Political regimes that have thwarted this secular trend in the name of inaction, spent a model, have known only tyranny and misery.
Thus, the systematic denunciation of "globalization" and the very use of such a word can dodge the real issues, so it reflects a misunderstanding - if not a misunderstanding deep - the very essence of economic and social phenomena.
[1] Agence France-Presse, May 29, 2001.
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