Varieties of capitalism and environmental performance

IF 6.6 2区 经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108362
Felipe Jordán
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This paper investigates the role of institutions in decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts, employing the Varieties of Capitalism framework. It finds that Northern European countries have achieved more significant decoupling than other Western OECD countries since the 1980s, as measured by the Ecological Footprint of Consumption. Differences in corporatism, as well as the amount and type of public social expenditures, are hypothesized to play a crucial role in explaining this pattern. Multiple regression analysis reveals that larger proportions of GDP allocated to universal social expenditures — not contingent on work status — are robustly associated with stronger decoupling. This suggests that the considerable investments of Northern European countries in universal social benefits have been key for effectively reducing the environmental impacts associated with economic growth.

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资本主义的多样性与环境绩效
本文采用 "资本主义变种"(Varieties of Capitalism)框架,研究了制度在经济增长与环境影响脱钩方面的作用。研究发现,自 20 世纪 80 年代以来,与其他西方经合组织国家相比,北欧国家实现了更为显著的脱钩(以消费生态足迹衡量)。假设公司制的差异以及公共社会支出的数量和类型在解释这种模式方面发挥了关键作用。多元回归分析表明,国内生产总值中用于全民社会支出(不取决于工作状况)的比例越大,脱钩越强。这表明,北欧国家在全民社会福利方面的大量投资是有效减少与经济增长相关的环境影响的关键。
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Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学
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12.00
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5.70%
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313
审稿时长
6 months
期刊介绍: Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.
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