Neoliberalism and Climate Policy in the United States: From market fetishism to the developmental state

by Robert MacNeil

Book Overview

This book explores how Washington's efforts to act on climate change have been translated under conditions of American neoliberalism, where the state struggles to find a stable and legitimate role in the economy, and where environmental and industrial policy are enormously contentious topics.

This original work conceptualizes US climate policy first and foremost as a question of innovation policy, with capital accumulation and market domination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138689289
• ISBN13: 9781138689282
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"