GLOBALIZATION, EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

The increasing interdependence between individuals and nations has been a constant in the social development throughout history, the transformations had appeared in the field of communications and transports during the last decades and this has accelerated the process in East to the point of causing changes which follow one another with a vertiginous speed. Taking this new reality as departure point, we present competitiveness and social cohesion in a global world, which tries to deepen the consequences of the new global surroundings in terms of efficiency and fairness, two purposes which, traditionally, have been considered antagonistic in the economic and social debates.