The World Economy Towards Global Disequilibrium

Acknowledgements xviii List of Figures List of Maps xvi List of Tables Introduction and Main Conclusions PART I: WHAT DOES GLOBALIZATION REALLY MEAN? : WORLD, EUROPE, ITALY The World Has Changed: Wake Up, Europe! Fifty Years Ago... Until a Few Years Ago Thirty Years from Now... If Everything Continues as it Has in the Last Five Years PART II: HOW TO PREVENT DISEQUILIBRIUM IN THE WORLD ECONOMY The American Grasshopper, the Chinese Ant, the Russian Eagle and the European Sleeping Beauty How Long Can the European Beauty Keep Sleeping: Maastricht and Lisbon Together or Maastricht Alone... For Ever and Ever. Amen? World Growth, Trade, Real and Financial Imbalances, the International Monetary System and Exchange Rates: A Global Vision Appendix to Chapter Six: Tables of Simulations Does a Positive Sum Game that Makes Everyone Better Off Really Exist? The Risks and Temptations from the Myopic and Egoistic Viewpoints of Individual Continents and Countries Appendix to Chapter Seven: Tables of Simulations PART III: ITALY AS A CASE STUDY FOR EUROPE: GROWTH IS POSSIBLE, GROWING MORE IS A MUST Financial Equilibrium and Higher Growth: An Analysis of Expenditure Items with the Purpose of Appraising Where to Find and Where to Shift Resources A Policy Mix to Re-Launch Growth under Conditions of Structural Equilibrium in Public Finance A Strategy of Structural Policies for Competitiveness and Growth Appendix to Part III: The Italian Plan to Match the Lisbon Strategy