Un tema para pensar, aunque quizá su simplificación puede ser excesiva. Se trata de
pensar si "más comercio" implica "más democracia". Se asume que "más democracia" es algo deseable. Sobre esto habla
Martin Wolf en el Financial Times. Su conclusión podría estar en estas dos frases:
This is not to argue that all market economies are democracies or that all market economies must be globalised. It is to argue that stable democracies also possess at least reasonably open market economies.
En su argumentación pone un par de gráficos (uno es el adjunto, en el que es evidente que la correlación no es perfecta), y también añado el que para mí es el texto más sugerente en su argumentación:
Democracy and capitalism rest on an ideal of equality: everybody may share in political decision-making and do the best they can in the market. These freedoms were revolutionary not that long ago.
Yet deep conflicts also exist. Democratic politics depends on solidarity; capitalists do not care about nationality. Democracy is local; capitalism is essentially global. Democratic politics is founded on the equality of citizens; capitalism cares little about the distribution of riches. Democracy says all citizens have a voice; capitalism gives the rich by far the loudest. Electorates desire some economic security; capitalism is prone to boom and bust.
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