Why is it that in the globalisation process the economic aspects have cornered the political ones?
The world has become economically globalised but there are no political mechanisms of control. They must be created. At the moment, from there perspective of economic globalisation -an increase in international trade, the power of transnationals, freedom of circulation of capital- as I see it, it lacks regulation. The situation is obvious, we only have to look at history. When single markets have been created -such as Spain, or the European Community-, they have not distributed resources fairly, much less the profits. Officially, we are told that the market is the best distributor of resources and books on economics speak of curves of supply and demand with points of balance with a price appropriate for everyone. But, actually, the market does not regulate itself. Why not? Because the suppliers and buyers do not always have the same power. In the case of petrol, the power is in the hands of Shell, Repsol, British Petroleum. There is no market in the true sense of the word: it is someti
