Globalisation Zahnflankenspiel in den reichen Nationen

Durch Chris Giles

Ein populäres Zahnflankenspiel gegen globalisation und die Führer der größten Firmen der Welt fegt alle reichen Länder, Erscheinen einer FT/Harris Abstimmung.

Breite Mehrheiten Leute in den US und in Europa wünschen höhere Besteuerung für die Rich und zahlen sogar Kappen, damit leitende Angestellten widersprechen, was sie sind nicht gerechtfertigte Belohnungen und die negativen Effekte von globalisation glauben.

Betrachtung globalisation als überwältigend negative Kraft, Bürger der reichen Länder schauen zu den Regierungen, um die Schläge zu polstern, die sie sind gekommen von der Liberalisierung ihrer Wirtschaftssysteme, mit auftauchenden Ländern zu handeln wahrnehmen.

Those polled in Britain, France, the US and Spain were about three times more likely to say globalisation was having a negative rather than a positive effect on their countries. The majority was smaller in Germany, with its large export base.

Corporate leaders fared little better, with 5 per cent or fewer of those polled in the US and all large European economies (except Italy) saying they had a great deal of admiration for those who run large companies. In these countries, between a third and a half said they had no admiration at all for corporate bosses.

In response to fears of globalisation and rising inequality, the public in all the rich countries surveyed – the US, Germany, UK, France, Italy and Spain – want their governments to increase taxation on those with the highest incomes. In European countries, a large majority want governments to go further and to impose pay caps on the heads of companies.

Europeans still overwhelmingly support the principle of free competition within the European Union, contrary to Nicolas Sarkozy’s wishes at the recent European summit, but in France, Germany and Spain, the populations want their political leaders to play a larger role in managing their economies.

The depth of anti-globalisation feeling in the FT/Harris poll, which surveyed more than 1,000 people online in each of the six countries, will dismay policy-makers and corporate executives. Their view that opening economies to freer trade is beneficial to poor and rich countries alike is not shared by the citizens of rich countries, regardless of how liberal their economic traditions.

The issue of rising inequality is now high on the political agenda of every country and will feature prominently in the 2008 US presidential election.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007

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