CRITICISM AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. REVIEWS
Moscow: Moscow Public Scientific Foundation. 2001. 272 p.
(Scientific reports, No. 127)
(c) 2002 L. Z. ZEVIN, N. A. USHAKOVA
At the turn of the two millennia, the problem of globalization has become one of the most actively discussed (and controversial) topics of economic theory and practice. Conventionally, we can distinguish two periods in the development of modern approaches to this problem. Before the crises of the mid-1990s, South-East Asia, Russia, and some Latin American countries were dominated by uncompromising adherents of the universality of the theory of globalization, its applicability to all groups of countries, all spheres of the world economy, and its beneficial impact on them. However, the severe consequences of these crises, the speed of their spread
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They strengthened the position of critics of globalization, whose fears were confirmed in a series of subsequent events: the emergence of turmoil in the Turkish economy, the catastrophe of the open economy model in Argentina, and the deterioration of the world economic situation at the beginning of the new century.
The most difficult task today, in our opinion, is to find solutions to such problems as the nature of the relationship between the general (universality of global processes) and the particular (specifics of the economic structure, strategy and development policy of individual large countries outside the so-called industrial world, the reaction of economic groups of medium and underdeveloped countries to the challenges of globalization); finding out long-term development impulses from the outside by opening up medium-and underdeveloped economies to the world economy, while simultaneously increasing resilience to shocks coming from there, including through a higher degree of self-sufficiency and the use of state regulation to prioritize resources for the formation of a viable national economic system that is competitive by world standards.
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