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Institutions and the environment: the case for a historical political economy

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  • Ali DOUAI
  • Matthieu MONTALBAN

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This paper provides a critical review of the ‘state of the art’ of institutional analysis applied essentially by social-ecological economists in the environmental domain. It highlights both areas of strength and issues where there is still room for improvement in analytical terms, by construing these approaches in the context of a general taxonomy of institutionalisms – widely used in politics and applied here in the economic realm. This provides the rationale for re-construing a number of related issues drawn from the core insights of a historical institutionalist approach to human-nature.

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  • Ali DOUAI & Matthieu MONTALBAN, 2009. "Institutions and the environment: the case for a historical political economy," Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019) 2009-12, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA).
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    Keywords

    Ecological economics; institutional analysis; socio-economy; regulation;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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