febrúar 01, 2003

Hnattvædd stríð

Í nýjasta hefti Foreign Policy er forsíðugreinin The Five Wars of Globalization. Þar skrifar Moisés Naim, ritstjóri FP, um "stríðin fimm" sem mótast af hnattvæðingunni (alþjóðavæðingunni), gegn ólöglegum fíkniefnum, ólöglegri vopnasölu, brotum á höfundarrétti, ólöglegum innflytjendum og peningaþvætti.
Hann vitnar m.a. í "Human Development Report" SÞ frá '99 þar sem fíkniefnasala er talin nema 400 milljörðum dala á ári (8% af [löglegri] VLF heimsins) sem er álíkt stærð spænska hagkerfisins.
Varðandi brot á höfundarrétti, þá vitnar Naim í forstjóra svissnesks úraframleiðanda:
"We now compete with a product manufactured by Chinese prisoners. The business is run by the Chinese military, their families and friends, using roughly the same machines we have, which they purchased at the same industrial fairs we go to. The way we have rationalized this problem is by assuming that their customers and ours are different. The person that buys a pirated copy of one of our $5,000 watches for less than $100 is not a client we are losing. Perhaps it is a future client that some day will want to own the real thing instead of a fake. We may be wrong and we do spend money to fight the piracy of our products. But given that our efforts do not seem to protect us much, we close our eyes and hope for the better."
Æ fleiri forstjórar vestrænna fyrirtækja eru farnir að taka undir þetta.

Í lokaorðum sínum segir Naim m.a.:
Beating market forces is next to impossible. In some cases, this reality may force governments to move from repressing the market to regulating it. In others, creating market incentives may be better than using bureaucracies to curb the excesses of these markets.
[...]
But society can better deal with other segments of these kinds of illegal trade through regulation, not prohibition. Policymakers must focus on opportunities where market regulation can ameliorate problems that have defied approaches based on prohibition and armed interdiction of international trade.
Áhugaverð grein fyrir áhugasama. Hægt verður að lesa hana næstu daga, þangað til 2. tbl. FP kemur út, þá held ég að hún verði ekki lengur aðgengileg á internetinu.
Agust skrifaði 01.02.03 16:41

Flokkun: Hnattvæðing/Globalisation , Meðmæli , Stjórnmál