Revisiting the nexus between inequality and globalization from a systemic-structural perspective
Despite the downward trend observed in global inequality, the systemic-structural approach provides a combined interpretation of the gains for globalization’s winners and the losses for its losers, fundamentally as a result of an asymmetric distribution of power. This approach views institutional change not as a straightforward evolutionary process or a simple ideological construct, but as the outcome of shifts in the material conditions of production. Such a perspective helps to understand some of the apparent contradictions currently seen in international trade and explains why a partial reversal of globalization is unlikely to result in a less unequal distribution of income.
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Juan Carlos Palacios CívicoAssociate Professor in the Department of Economic History, Institutions, Politics and World Economy at the University of Barcelona. PhD in Economics from the same university. He is a member of the Consolidated Research Group (SGR-1145 2017-2021) Copolis “Welfare, Community and Social Control” at the University of Barcelona. His lines of work and research are: economic and social inequality, development, economic growth, development cooperation, the Cuban economy, and neoliberalism and democracy. Several of his articles have been published in JCR academic journals such as Growth and Change, Third World Quarterly, International Journal of Human Rights, and Review of Radical Political Economics. In relation to his areas of specialization, he has participated in the Cuba-European Union Expert Exchange Programme, funded by the European Commission, and has collaborated on several occasions with the Ibero-American General Secretariat.
