European Values and Globalization

Heinz Theisen

Abstract


Good Governance, Social Market Economy, Culture and Education are the decisive elements for Human Development. We need a third way between the extremes of the Utopian Global Free Market and a new nationalism. A Social Market Economy and the European Model of a Union could be such third way. For a new Social Market Economy we need a renaissance of the European dialectics between culture and society, idealism and materialism, religion and enlightenment, solidarity and profitability. The balancing of those poles is deeply rooted in our best traditions.

 


Article in: English

Article published: 2009-03-16

Keyword(s): Global Free Market; Failing State; corruption; Constitutional State; Good Governance; Social Market Economy; reciprocity; balance; education; globalization; Flexicurity; Coopetition; Complementarities

DOI: 10.3846/1822-430X.2009.17.1.4-11

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