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Leading and emerging economic powers have scheduled different gatherings in order to reflect on the causes of the crisis and to devise measures and remedies out of the damage already done which every nation has to face. This section offers two contributions that could help on different levels of reflections. The first, by Jose I. Duarte, lecturer in Economics at the University of Macau, presents a few considerations that would prevent ungrounded suspicions on certain factors of the crisis or unwarranted hopes for an easy set of local or global solutions. Not a few specialists would agree that structural problems of that global scale need time, courage and creativity to be fixed. In an interview given in Germany that makes up the second part of this section, the renowned philosopher Jürgen Habermas talks about the necessity for an international world order. But, before it can be successfully tested, improved and experienced for the better living of all, the challenges of a “life after bankruptcy”, as the title says, remain to be faced by many.
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