Chapter 5. Discovering Price in all the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy
- Becky Mansfield
Published Online: 25 MAR 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306750.ch5
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Book Title
Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations
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How to Cite
Robertson, M. (2009) Discovering Price in all the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy, in Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations (ed B. Mansfield), Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444306750.ch5
Publication History
- Published Online: 25 MAR 2009
- Published Print: 28 MAR 2008
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Print ISBN: 9781405175500
Online ISBN: 9781444306750
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- discovering price in wrong places - work of commodity definition and price under neoliberal environmental policy;
- Clean Water Act (CWA);
- two developing markets - planned market in water quality credits and young extant market in wetland credits;
- water quality trading (WQT) - “water quality” - what it is and how it is measured;
- CWA permit program, WQT credit providers, WQT credit-generating sites;
- prospective market in WQT credits;
- economists who work on wetland credit markets - operation of wetland credit market;
- wetland bank entrepreneurs;
- price mechanism for reaching Pareto-optimality
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Say What? New Commodities
Demand Will Appear … But For What?
Let's Talk About Price
Consequences for Market Environmentalism
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
References