It can furthermore be argued by Stevenson, Paul said that for some, global capital is little more than gambling with other people’s treasure. For others, it remains simply a fact of life, no more reversible than the weather and perhaps just as capricious. Whatever one’s views, and certainly even the most ardent advocates of free market versions of globalisation are today visibly shaken, its impacts on social life and institutions raise questions not only of what can be done to prevent such catastrophes but also what must be done. Desperately needed are criteria that include as overhead costs the negative social impacts of globalisation. A first step would suggest programmatic criteria based on standards of justice in order to assess the social costs of public risk, uncertainty, impoverishment, the loss of one’s patrimony, displacement and other negative consequences.