This book explores the establishment of emissions trading as a form of environmental, market-based governance. It conceptualizes markets as institutions, and analyzes them as a system of climate governance. To this end, it argues that international efforts to promulgate markets run up against...

Capitalist development is framed in two epochs with distinctive (if overlapping) socio-political, economic and cultural features-modernity and post-modernity. Constant through each epoch has been the drive to increase control of collective organization in space and time. This paper suggests that...

This article explores the development of carbon emissions markets through analysis policy formation in the United States. Whether the markets can be developed and operate quickly enough to have an impact in mitigating greenhouse gas production will be determined in large part by how...