Contro il liberoscambismo

Against Neoliberalism

Marco Veronese Passarella

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Abstract: The article aims to show that the opposition «welfare or barbarism» is historically linked to the degree of globalization of advanced economies. I argue that the current trend is not the zeroing of the welfare state, but a radical re-definition of it along both «universalist» and «minimalist» lines. In fact, welfare state programmes are being reduced to a unique residual monetary benefit, whose function is to bridge the gap between the actual real wage and the minimum subsistence threshold of the working class. Against this background, this article provides a radical critique to the unconditional, and sometimes apologetic, acceptance of capitalist globalization and of its ideological superstructure, namely, the neo-liberal agenda. In addition, a different idea of the organisation of the economy is proposed, recovering and updating the concept of the «economic planning».

Keywords: Welfare State; Neoliberal Agenda; Economic Planning; Socialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 B51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-02
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Published in Ragion Pratica 1.42(2014): pp. 9-33

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