The politics of the green free market or: why virtue and self-interest do not suffice
by Marcel Wissenburg
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2001

Abstract: Political theory usually black-boxes the economic sphere and seems interested only in controlling the free market from the outside. Hence, a majority of green political theorists advocate classic financial and legal (dis)incentives to force actors into greening their activities: taxes, subsidies, fines, control agencies, etc. On the other hand, free market environmentalists, the libertarians in green political theory, expound an often extreme faith in the environmentally benign side-effects of private ownership of nature and 'hence' of the free market's capacity for environmental self-regulation. In this article, I question and reject both hypotheses, arguing for a more moderate position.

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