Santi, Michel
2020-11-23T20:07:15Z
2020-11-23T20:07:15Z
2013
978-3-0352-6316-9
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/15937
How could one not remember The Prisoner – the cult British 60s series in which a giant bubble frantically chased the hero played by Patrick
McGoohan? These days, our world is in a similar situation – each and
every one of us are hostages of bubbles because the world is full of
them, and not just from the speculative bubbles that plague our markets.
Indeed, there is nothing easier than differentiating the bubble that imprisons and isolates our politicians, the salary and bonuses bubble for
the executive managers of large companies and in the finance world, the
youth unemployment bubble, and finally the inequality bubble. Just like
the bubble that tirelessly chased the prisoner of our TV series, it would
seem that our financial system has been affected by a similar curse
because the collapse of a bubble displaces like clockwork the speculative fever of another instrument or another market, which then blows up
to make another speculative bubble! Indeed, financially we are progressively losing control of our lives. It wasn’t for any reason that Joseph
Stiglitz, the Nobel prize winner in Economics, questioned whether or
not a person’s life nowadays depends on “their income or the education
provided by their parents”.
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Peter Lang S.A
Capitalism
Capitalism without conscience
Economía
Capitalismo
Sistemas económicos
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Abierto (Texto Completo)
10.3726/978-3-0352-6316-9
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