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- Söderbaum, Peter, 1937-
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Actors, ideology, markets : Neoclassical and institutional perspectives on environmental policy
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Ingår i: Ecological Economics. - : Elsevier. - 0921-8009 .- 1873-6106. ; 10:1, s. 47-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay is a critical examination of three well-known textbooks of neoclassical environmental economics concerning their treatment of environmental policy. Dynamic efficiency in the sense of Cost-Benefit Analysis of a monetary kind is not the value-neutral instrument to project and policy evaluation it purports to be. Measuring willingness-to-pay and other market values does not solve many problems if the issue is one of world view, ideology and life-styles. As an alternative to conventional approaches. a more open attitude to various ideological standpoints in society is recommended.Neoclassical textbooks emphasize the government as the main agent in environmental policy and classify policy instruments as either belonging to the command-and-control or the economic incentives category. A broadening of perspective is here suggested in the sense ofincluding many more agents of environmental policy; for instance business companies and public interest groups. Environmental policy starts rather at the level of individuals than governments. A distinction is made between monetary and non-monetary incentives and disincentives as ways of influencing behavior, and alternatives to the neoclassical view of man, business, markets are suggested for purposes of understanding social change.
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- Söderbaum, Peter, 1937-
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Neoclassical and institutional approaches to development and the environment
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Ingår i: Ecological Economics. - : Elsevier. - 0921-8009 .- 1873-6106. ; 5:2, s. 127-144
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Institutional economics is suggested as a more fruitful approach to environmental problems than the now dominant neoclassical paradigm. The historical background of institutionalism in the United States and Europe is given as well as th main characteristics of this approach, i.e. holism, emphasis on institutional arrangements, pattern modelling and emphasis on the political element of economics. Differences between neoclassical and institutional economics are elaborated with respect to the concept of economics (reductionist versus holistic), the approach to decision-making (aggregated versus highly disaggregated), and the view of social and institutional change (public choice versus actor-network approach).
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