“Where Did All the Markets Go?”1 was a question prominent amongst environmental economists in the 1990s when they realized the lack of market-based approaches in environmental policy practice with despair. The neoclassical economic theory of politics – or Public Choice –answered that question by claiming a “market tendency for the political process to resist market […]
Author Archives: Sven Rudolph
Dr. Sven Rudolph is Associate Professor for Contemporary Economics in English at Kyoto University, Japan. He has intensively studied the political economy of cap-and-trade schemes in Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan, published three books on carbon pricing, and a number of peer-reviewed journal articles on related subjects. Sven has also worked as campaigner for Friends of the Earth German (BUND) and policy advisor to the German government.