The World Economy Towards Global Disequilibrium

Part I. What Does Globalization Really Mean?: World, Europe, Italy

1. The World Has Changed: Wake Up, Europe!
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

2. Fifty Years Ago … Until a Few Years Ago
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

3. Thirty Years from Now … If Everything Continues as It Has in the Last Five Years
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

Part II. How to Prevent Global Disequilibrium in the World Economy

4. The American Grasshopper, the Chinese Ant, the Russian Eagle and the European Sleeping Beauty
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

5. How Long Can the European Beauty Keep Sleeping: Maastricht and Lisbon together or Maastricht Alone … For Ever and Ever. Amen?
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

6. World Growth, Trade, Real and Financial Imbalances, the International Monetary System and Exchange Rates: A Global Vision
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

7. 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
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

Part III. Italy as a Case Study for Europe: Growing More Is Possible, Growing More Is a Must

8. Financial Equilibrium and Higher Growth: An Analysis of Expenditure Items with the Purpose of Appraising Where to Find and Where to Shift Resources
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

9. A Policy Mix to Re-Launch Growth under Conditions of Structural Equilibrium in Public Finance
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

10. A Strategy of Structural Policies for Competitiveness and Growth
Mario Baldassarri, Pasquale Capretta

Keywords: Economics, Asian Economics, International Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Political Economy