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現代グローバリゼーションの一考察 : アメリカ覇権の構造と関連して

A study of the modern globalization in relation to the U.S. hegemony

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00229741

https://doi.org/10.15002/00007711

法政大学経済学部学会

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2011-03-30

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This paper discusses the modern globalization in relation to the U.S. hegemony. The military power was given first priority in the social systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the central planning economy was operated under low level productivity. For these reasons, people were looking for freedom and rich life. And finally they abandoned their social systems. These systems were self-destructed. The struggling system of the cold war era ended in 1989-1991. On the other hand, the capitalism system in which the United States is the axis has also strengthened the nuclear and missile systems in the cold war era. The military inflation in the U.S was advancing. So the competitiveness of the U.S. was declining and the hollowing of the manufacturings in the U.S. was accelerated. There were big changes in the industrial structure in the U.S., which means the financial and information services industries took the manufacturings' place and came to the forefront. The U.S. also promoted to ease the regulations of the rest of the world to realize the financial growth globally. The world seemed to be stabilized by globalization under the U.S. hegemony, but the world became even more chaotic. The United States financed the funds from the world to make the U.S. economy stronger. It caused the asset bubbles and the excessive consumption in the U.S. The excessive consumption in the U.S made it possible for the world economy to export to U.S. and grow. However, the financial crisis happened in 2008. The chain of growth has been replaced by the chain of crisis. The competition for sharing the profit by the wealthy classes of the world has shifted the competition to impute the losses to the others. As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor has expanded tremendously. I think this would be the beginning of global liquidation of “the cold war debt” in the world.

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