This paper addresses the question whether the features of the post-war process of globalisation are consistent with the social and environmental requirements of sustainable development. To this end the post-war period is articulated in two phases: the Bretton Wood period (1945-1971) and the...

Though the recent process of globalisation of international markets succeeded in sustaining the economic growth of the countries that actively participated in this process, the available empirical evidence suggests that it was accompanied by a world-wide increase of environmental degradation and...