Author: Giulio Tremonti
Topic: Political Essay
Rating: 3 (6 out of fear, 0 for Hope)
Three adjectives: No-Global, illiberal, fascist-catholic.
Reading this book was very helpful to understand the guidelines of the IV to the Berlusconi government, dictated by true ideologue of the Italian right, the economy minister Giulio Tremonti.
Tremonti's work is divided into two parts:
1.
"Fear" is nothing more than an analysis of the recent past and, in particular, the globalization of the economy and financial markets.
2.
"Hope" are the answers to overcome the crisis Tremonti Italian and European.
The analysis seeks to explain what happened in the world after the introduction of the WTO (World Trade Organization) and especially after the entry of China and emerging countries in this organization. In addition
Tremonti stresses the degeneration of finance which led the West to the brink of bankruptcy, especially with the last sub-prime mortgage crisis in U.S., fueled by speculation with derivative instruments also on debt securities such as mortgages .
Tremonti is clearly an anti-globalization and illiberal Colbert, but his analysis is essentially correct and acceptable. The minister in fact understand what are the dangers of globalization for a Europe that exports and imports wealth unemployment and poverty.
This puts him at a level definitely higher than the anti-globalization leftist critics of globalization while not having understood the mechanisms and the dangers.
The analysis, however, is clearly illiberal because it proposes the strengthening of the state and community to overcome the shortcomings of the market.
His differentiation between "liberalism" and "marketism" has left me quite puzzled, because the classical liberal theory is based precisely on the primacy of the market and the marginal role in the economy.
tremontiana opposed the recipe, so that the minister of Treasury sees the revival of "politics" and "values" the only way to overcome the crisis of stagnation that pervades Europe for many years now. Paradoxically
Tremonti buckles all the blame to the left, and when it performed very statist, and when they acted in a liberal, trying to export to the world capitalist market economy.
The main critic is that I never did get the developing countries in the WTO too quickly, when compared with fifty years needed to grow the European common market.
marketism unrestrained and degeneration of finance are therefore the evils that have brought Europe to the brink, but what are responses to the crisis?
Tremonti, a good liberal with words, offers the classic recipe for fascism of God, Country and Family, revised and modernized in 7 key words: Values, Family and Identity, Authority, Order, Responsibility, Federalism.
For the first three terms is clear will to conform to the social doctrine of the Catholic Church and Tremonti says openly that there is no spirituality without hope and without God's return to the center of the Italian and European public life.
Clearly our good Giulio has studied the program that led George W. Bush re-election by exploiting the very reference to God, much felt in our country because of the proximity of the Vatican.
God therefore is the point of spiritual reference, the Judeo-Christian values \u200b\u200bare the foundation of civilization and European identity and the family is seen only in the classical model.
Nothing I say, civil unions or heterosexual or homosexual partnerships are on schedule Tremont.
Authority to order and there is little to say except that thinking starts from a critique of '68, responsible for shooting down the two pillars of our society advocated by.
Accountability and Federalism in practice are two sides of same coin, as the fiscal federalism should be based on its desire to empower the local government expenditure.
But the real gem of the book, Tremonti reserves the right in the final after criticizing the left for state control and for developing drugs from public spending, what the Minister proposes to give Lombard a breath of fresh air vented to Europe? The issuance of Euro Bonds, or to reduce the public debt of European countries, should be indebted to Europe itself.
Great!
We just have to take off his hat to the inventor of a new political-economic model: it combines a touch of market with two tablespoons of statism. You mix it all with a captive-fascist substrate and the soup is ready.
Poor Italy.
