Capitalism, Global Change and Sustainable Development. The future of Globalization

Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar XXXI Edition

The purpose of the Conference is to focus on a new form of capitalism under the pressure of the global change and to support the environmental and social sustainability of the economic growth, in an area in which the process of globalization is questioned and developed countries have to face many difficult challenges.

The issues are:

Globalization as driven by fast-paced technological change
The new globalization. Rich and developing nations alike with unprecedented policy challenges
The global change. Toward a new capitalism?
The skills polarization and the decline of the employment in manufacture
The impact of globalization in a world with fragmentation of production
The global trading system and the trade wars
The internet flow of knowledge and the great convergence
Distributing the gains from globalization and sustainable development
Globalization. The total and the relative levels of welfare
Nationalism and protectionism in EU and USA
Digi-tech, automation, services and new jobs