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Le monde diplomatique: ttip, nafta, tisa: una otan de la economía -- Página Legal -- Índice -- Los tratados comerciales -- 1 Nueva ola -- El tifón que amenaza a los pueblos -- La globalización feliz -- Agrupados frente -- Los obstáculos que bloquean -- Tribunales para atracar a los Estados -- La máquina de coser del mundo -- Cincuenta sombras de liberalización -- El Far West asiático -- El beso de la muerte -- 2 Perseverare diabolicum -- Y Paraguay descubrió el libre comercio -- Asia, el regreso -- Nueva mirada sobre -- Napoleón III eligió el libre comercio

The year 2008 will be remembered in history as the year of the most serious capitalist fi nancial crisis since the outbreah of World War, and as the beginning of state measures taken to mitigate the social eff ects of the economic earthquake. Th is behaviour of Western governments, which includes millions of euros and dollars in public contributions to save the market economy and decisions to intervene in banking that would have been unthinkable in other circumstances, reminded me of the relationship of equilibrium and dependency that has always existed between the state and private interests, between the public sector and private initiative (is this the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith?). Th at is why I was led to remember the serious events that aff ected Rome in the fi rst century before Christ. Th is was a period when the business of the big fi nancial companies operating in the rich province of Asia were shaken and when the Senate resounded to the warning words of Cicero, recalling that the social equilibrium of Rome and its existence as a State depended on the successful outcome of the interests of the great businessmen, and urging the Republic to intervene with all its power to resolve them. Th is is an approach to those events and to fi nding out about the fi nancial fi rms operating during the last two centuries of the Roman republic. ; 2008 será recordado en la historia como el año del estallido de la más grave crisis fi nanciera capitalista tras la segunda guerra mundial, y el inicio de un conjunto de medidas estatales con el fi n de paliar los efectos sociales de tal terremoto económico. Este comportamiento de los gobiernos occidentales que incluye miles de millones de euros y de dólares en aportaciones públicas para salvar la economía de mercado, y decisiones de intervención bancaria impensables en otras circunstancias, me recordó la relación de equilibrio y dependencia que siempre ha existido entre el Estado y los intereses particulares, entre el sector público y la iniciativa privada (¿debe ser ésa ...