In this paper we first review the concepts of Globalization and Inequality, paying special attention to the conclusions reached previously by Simon Kuznets and his followers. Later we carry on with an international comparison between Sweden and the United States for the period 1913-2012. We depict the evolution in inequality levels for both countries, based in two main indicators: the Gini Index and the top 1% income share. Our findings point out that inequality has strongly risen in the United States whilst Sweden’s level of inequality is not far from the one presented immediately after the World War II. These results may indicate Sweden’s higher ability to deal with the globalization aftermaths.

In the social reality, the State and the market carryout specific coordination functions; these agents are closely related but their relation is permanently tense. This article is a reflection on the tension generated between the priorities of the State and the market interests. The theoretical base from which it parts is basically liberal, although it has several minor changes which result pretty convenient (v.g. neoschumpeterian liberalism, Austrian liberalism, and public choice liberalism). The objective, far from proposing a concluding vision, is to demonstrate a part of the wide spread of conceptual liberal possibilities from which this object of study can be analyzed.

In this article it is stated that the most demonstrated statements of the neoschumpeterian theory might be extremely useful for the analysis of business administration. Schumpeterian theory focuses in the use of analogies or biology concepts to analyze the behavior of institutions and social systems. For this focus, the signals that companies receive from the economical system are of three types: a) the technological opportunities and the benefits expected, which are closely related to them, b) the current behavior and the expected one from the demand from its products and other products and c) the changes in costs, prices, quantities, and rentabilities in the markets in which they operate, and in some others.

In the past the responsible authorities of the Italian government have limited their performance to react to those pressures coming from the European Commission in respect to competence matters, but only in some exceptional circumstances the different Italian governments have acted in a reactive way. In this article it is demonstrated that the Italian policies regarding competence have been erratic; sometimes the authorities have reacted in time, but in some other occasions their intervention was quite urgent and it has arrived later than it was expected. To this effect, interest is focused in analyzing the evolution of the market and in pointing out the most significative advances that have been reached in respect to their internal market liberalization.

It is discussed whether the policy of incentives to the mining sector is or is not appropriate. Proponents argue that thanks to this the municipalities have greater opportunities to develop, while detractors argue that it makes no sense to channel resources into an industry without a future. In this paper we have proposed to evaluate the impact of the aid generated within the Coal Plan 1998–2005, the National Strategic Coal Reserve Plan 2006–2012, and the Structural Funds of the European Union 2000–2006 in twelve selected socioeconomic variables in the 105 municipalities of Castilla y León between 1998 and 2010.

It is discussed whether the policy of incentives to the mining sector is or is not appropriate. Proponents argue that thanks to this the municipalities have greater opportunities to develop, while detractors argue that it makes no sense to channel resources into an industry without a future. In this paper we have proposed to evaluate the impact of the aid generated within the Coal Plan 1998-2005, the National Strategic Coal Reserve Plan 2006-2012, and the Structural Funds of the European Union 2000-2006 in twelve selected socioeconomic variables in the 105 municipalities of Castilla y León between 1998 and 2010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2077-1886(12)70004-5

In the past the responsible authorities of the Italian government have limited their performance to react to those pressures coming from the European Commission in respect to competence matters, but only in some exceptional circumstances the different Italian governments have acted in a reactive way. In this article it is demonstrated that the Italian policies regarding competence have been erratic; sometimes the authorities have reacted in time, but in some other occasions their intervention was quite urgent and it has arrived later than it was expected. To this effect, interest is focused in analyzing the evolution of the market and in pointing out the most significative advances that have been reached in respect to their internal market liberalization

In this article it is stated that the most demonstrated statements of the neoschumpeterian theory might be extremely useful for the analysis of business administration. Schumpeterian theory focuses in the use of analogies or biology concepts to analyze the behavior of institutions and social systems. For this focus, the signals that companies receive from the economical system are of three types: a) the technological opportunities and the benefi ts expected, which are closely related to them, b) the current behavior and the expected one from the demand from its products and other products and c) the changes in costs, prices, quantities, and rentabilities in the markets in which they operate, and in some others.

In the social reality, the State and the market carryout specifi c coordination functions; these agents are closely related but their relation is permanently tense. This article is a refl ection on the tension generated between the priorities of the State and the market interests. The theoretical base from which it parts is basically liberal, although it has several minor changes which result pretty convenient (v.g. neoschumpeterian liberalism, Austrian liberalism, and public choice liberalism). The objective, far from proposing a concluding vision, is to demonstrate a part of the wide spread of conceptual liberal possibilities from which this object of study can be analyzed.

In this paper we first review the concepts of Globalization and Inequality, paying special attention to the conclusions reached previously by Simon Kuznets and his followers. Later we carry on with an international comparison between Sweden and the United States for the period 1913-2012. We depict the evolution in inequality levels for both countries, based in two main indicators: the Gini Index and the top 1% income share. Our findings point out that inequality has strongly risen in the United States whilst Sweden’s level of inequality is not far from the one presented immediately after the World War II. These results may indicate Sweden’s higher ability to deal with the globalization aftermaths.