Mikhail Delyagin, Doctor of Economics
Public director of Globalization Problem Institute

General theory of globalization

«World for Russia: the way we need it and what we can do with it»

(Analytical report open part in brief)

September 1998

Contents:

|Resume |2 |
|I. Information technologies expansion |3 |

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| On difference significance in the technological time | |
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|1.2. New resources for new technologies |9 |
|1.3. Old technologies «depreciation» |10 |
|II. Several consequences of markets globalization |12 |
|2.1. Competition globalization – monopolies globalization |12 |
|2.2. «Euro»: suppression of threat and destructive egoism |13 |
|!2.3. Financial competition |14 |
| Technological process slowdown | |
|III. Global regulation for global competition |17 |
|3.1. What will unite the world into «Economic UNO»? |17 |

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|3.3. Value of global regulation |18 |

About the author in brief

Delyagin, Mikhail Gennadjevich, born in 1968, Doctor of Economics.

From 1990 till 1993 – expert of the B. Eltsyn Group of Experts, since
1994 – leading analyst of the President of Russia Analytic Department, since 1996 – referent of the President of Russia assistant. Since March
1997 – advisor of the vice-prime-minister – Minister of Internals, since
June 1997 – advisor of the first vice-prime-minister Mr. B. Nemtsov. On his leaving the government one day prior to August 17th, he established a
Globalization Problem Institute. In the beginning of October 1998 after new government under Mr. Primakov had started its work, he was restored at the public service.

He has more than 300 publications (including in the USA, Germany,
France, China, India, Egypt etc.), 4 monographs, with the latest - «Economy of non-payments» was republished for three times since 1996 till 1997.

Resume

1. Information technologies development has brought to:

. «meta-technologies» creation, application of which makes it impossible for the party which applies such technologies to compete with the developers of these technologies;

. reorientation of technologies from necessary material objects formation to necessary type of conscious and culture formation

(transformation from high-tech to high-hume);

. acceleration of information technologies development to such extent that «short», theoretical investments are productive for the most advanced information technologies;

. approximate depreciation of traditional technologies;

. Information society creation in which money plays second role as compared with technologies.

7. Major humanity technological development prospects:

. Exacerbation and compelling character acquisition by divultion between developed and backward countries, and also between developed countries and creating new technologies and the rest developed countries;

. Insulation of people engaged in information technologies into internal

«information community», its concentration in the territory of the developed countries; slow concentration of the «information community» of the world and together with it concentration of the world progress in the «most developed» countries;