Élite del potere globale e modello sociale europeo
Despite the success of globalization as metaphor of our times, social sciences’ conceptual and methodological tools – just as data collection and analysis – remain, especially in the mainstream, those of methodological nationalism. Far from underestimating the salience of states and interstate dynam...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Rosenberg & Sellier
2012-09-01
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| Series: | Quaderni di Sociologia |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/qds/579 |
| Summary: | Despite the success of globalization as metaphor of our times, social sciences’ conceptual and methodological tools – just as data collection and analysis – remain, especially in the mainstream, those of methodological nationalism. Far from underestimating the salience of states and interstate dynamics, we need to stress, nonetheless, how the state in many ways has been object of an excessive emphasis. In this essay we try to outline the role of an alternative social formation, which we call transnational elite, in shaping the global economic agenda starting from the first 70s. Thanks to its influence on key institutions such as the Fmi, World Bank, US Federal Reserve and Bce, this social formation has managed to implement a set of measures very favorable to the interests of transnational capital. In doing so, it has also made national and global economic dynamics more prone to instability and, ultimately, crisis. Indeed, the last 30 years have been beset by a large number of crises, initially in the developing world and, more recently, at the very core of the advanced capitalist system, in US and Europe. These crises, and the way in which they are likely to be faced, threaten the sustainability of the “European social model”. |
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| ISSN: | 0033-4952 2421-5848 |