Milan, 12-14 May 2008
In these past years, increasingly open markets and a freer economy have benefited many citizens throughout the world. If we want to extend these advantages to every society in a fairer way, and avoid the danger of new conflicts that are generated by protectionism, we need to find new ways of “governing globalization”.
This consideration lies at the heart of Milan’s Forum, and it is an appropriate one at this moment of history in which there is an apparent resurgence of temptation toward protectionist closure, spurred on by an economic slowdown, turbulence in global financial markets and an increase in insecurity perceived by public opinion.
Once again, the forum’s aim is to open and spread discussion on the most important aspects of globalization, with a scope that reaches outside the confines of academics. These topics include finance, industry, commerce, and human capital as well as transversal issues regarding legality and society’s overall development.
Since these issues risk remaining imprisoned in ideological prejudices, they are particularly crucial to the future of our society. The Forum aims to compare opinions, data and concrete facts to stimulate debate and encourage an objective awareness of these issues. The goal is to find a more pragmatic and appropriate approach to dealing with the unavoidable choices that lie ahead.
The program
Monday 12 May
4:30pm, Palazzo Reale. piazza Duomo 12
Opening of the forum
Governing globalization
Tuesday 13 May
9:00am-11:00am, Bocconi University, aula magna, via Gobbi 5
Global finance: what the crisis can teach us
Overcoming the crisis without losing the freedom of financial markets: the role of regulations and transparency
Coordinators:
Mauro Bini
Franco Bruni
11:30am–1:30pm
Bocconi University, aula magna, via Gobbi 5
The global factory
What forces lead the globalization of industry? The role of market diversity and convergence, technology and complexity
Coordinator:
Salvatore Vicari
2:30pm–4:30pm
Bocconi University, aula magna, via Gobbi 5
The spectre of protectionism
A new desire for protectionism has reappeared after decades of market liberalizations: self-defence or self-defeating?
Coordinator:
Fabrizio Onida
5:00pm-7:00pm
Bocconi University, aula magna, via Gobbi 5
Global corporations and human capital
New professional resources are needed to compete globally: interculturalism, mobility, incentives
Coordinator:
Arnaldo Camuffo
6:30 – 8:00pm
Focus on the economy
In an open society several languages and techniques are mobilized to represent socio-economic phenomena. In which way the art and the publishing world have observed and narrated our society?
A multimedia show prepared by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory
9:00pm-10:30pm
Corriere della Sera, Buzzati conference room
A nation of decent people
A look at the dark sides of our society through investigative journalism, theater and song
Coordinator:
Gian Antonio Stella
Wednesday 14 May
9:30am-1:00pm
Bocconi University, aula magna
The open society, legality and organized crime
Can we still talk about a rule of law system in Italy? Organized crime, a weak legal system and legislative inability: the effects of the defi cits of legality in terms of market distortion and curbs on development
Coordinators:
Alberto Alessandri
Michele Polo
1:00pm
Rizzoli Bookstore – Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
Cocktail Discussion
Freeing growth
Presentation of the Attali Report, published in Italy by Università Bocconi Editore
and Rizzoli
3:30pm–6:00pm
Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica (Museum of Science and Technology)
The new areas of global competition
The Italian industrial district, a paradigm in transformation: from the factory to creativity
Coordinator:
Severino Salvemini
3:30pm–6:00pm
Palazzo della Triennale
Between global and local: the knowledge society and transnational processes
Under the impact of globalization, traditional society either looks for new and more advanced equilibrium or takes refuge in refusing anything new. Which will be the winning scenario? Coordinator:
Alberto Martinelli
3:30pm-6:00pm
Casa della Carità
The new kinds of poverty
Economic and social changes have shifted the fracture line of inequality. How does the new risk of poverty show itself? A matter of income, of course, but not only that
Coordinator:
Roberto Artoni
6:00pm-7:30pm
Corriere della Sera, Buzzati conference room
Open society and culture
Separate identities and cultural heritage. Can the knowledge of people
generate tolerance?
Debate with leading figures
7:30pm
Corriere della Sera, Buzzati conference room
Forum conclusions
Mario Monti
Piergaetano Marchetti