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A New Research Agenda for Energy Conflicts and Economic Coherence: Rethinking Energy Disputes within the Political Economy of Law

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  • Franklin Obeng-Odoom

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Energy disputes have evolved into legal disputes, raising questions like Why do legal energy disputes arise? How do these disputes align with existing theories in law and economics? And What are the outcomes of the resulting judgments, rulings, and rules for economic coherence? These are not merely legal questions; but legal science is, by definition, primarily focused on juridical responses. Evolutionary economics (EE) offers a potential remedy. Its social construction of inequality is an advance on the physical conception of scarcity in mainstream economics. Yet, EE has provided relatively little insight into legal disputes about energy. Theorizing that such disputes arise from scarcity without empirical work on the stratification and power plays in the energy industry is a fundamental weakness. Stratification economics presents a promising bridge, a property theory of power, to address the questions and see energy law in a new light.

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  • Franklin Obeng-Odoom, 2026. "A New Research Agenda for Energy Conflicts and Economic Coherence: Rethinking Energy Disputes within the Political Economy of Law," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(2), pages 347-353, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:60:y:2026:i:2:p:347-353
    DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2026.2657205
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