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The influence of lobbying on climate policies; or, why the world might fail13

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  • Pezzey, John C. V.

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How can the malign and growing influence of lobbying on global climate policies be checked? In this short piece I link some wide-ranging suggestions for academic research by environment and development economists that is needed to further this aim, with the key idea in Acemoglu and Robinson's (2012) Why Nations Fail. Their book argues strongly that sustained, very long-term economic growth through national industrial revolutions requires ‘inclusive institutions’ that distribute political power broadly over a nation's economic, class and geographical sectors. This is because long-term growth needs technical innovations, which cause creative destruction (structural adjustment) of existing technologies, which in turn harms the interests of existing elites. If elites are too powerful, they will block new technologies, so as to keep their powers to extract rents from the rest of society, and the nation will then fail (to grow sustainably).

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  • Pezzey, John C. V., 2014. "The influence of lobbying on climate policies; or, why the world might fail13," Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 19(3), pages 329-332, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:endeec:v:19:y:2014:i:03:p:329-332_00
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    1. Alexeev, Alexander & Good, David H. & Krutilla, Kerry, 2016. "Environmental taxation and the double dividend in decentralized jurisdictions," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 90-100.

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