Neoliberalizm and World Economic Crisis

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The current world economic crisis is in my opinion more difficult to deal with and will have more severe consequences for the mankind than the crisis’s which have already happened. The world as we know it now is far more interconnected than it used to be. According to Canadian futurist Herbert McLuhan it has become a “global village”. Thanks to the mass use of television, computers and internet the information flow accelerated and it “shortened” the distance even between remote countries. This process of spreading similar technological, political, cultural, social and economical trends is often referred to as globalization. In the economy for example, globalization means the increasing role of the international corporations, while in politics it simply shows that western democracy patterns become more and more popular worldwide. Neoliberalism is one of such patterns and it is also the one that contributed to the current crisis. First let me magnify the background of neoliberalism. The United States, as prof. Grzegorz Kolodko once stated, were the cradle of neoliberalism (Kolodko, 2011). Neoliberal free-market economy proposal was the answer to the Keynesian model from the after-war period that implied completely opposite view. During the times of the Great Depression John Maynard Keynes, the famous English economist from the beginning of the XX Century, in his book “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” proposed an increased government intervention as a solution to the problems of recession and unemployment in the US. He thought that “demand creates supply” and the markets cannot naturally come to equilibrium, instead they have to be regulated. With the higher government spending on investments (lowering interest rates decreased investment expenditures) it was possible to hire more people and lower the unemployment. The Keynesian model succeeded in
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