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A diversified idea paradigm? Mapping the evolution of economic environmental and climate ideas in the WTO Secretariat

Holm, Anna LU (2023) STVM25 20231
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to highlighting how economic environmental and climate ideas are expressed in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization and to compare this with how they are expressed in other international organisations. In the article The evolution of ideas in global climate policy, Jonas Meckling and Bentley B. Allan map the evolution of economic environmental and climate ideas in six large international organisations. Basing their analysis on four economic schools of thought, limits-to-growth, neoclassical, Keynesian, and Schumpeterian, they conclude that the neoclassical idea paradigm that dominated in the 90s and early 2000s has given way to a diversified paradigm since the mid-00s, in which Keynesian... (More)
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to highlighting how economic environmental and climate ideas are expressed in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization and to compare this with how they are expressed in other international organisations. In the article The evolution of ideas in global climate policy, Jonas Meckling and Bentley B. Allan map the evolution of economic environmental and climate ideas in six large international organisations. Basing their analysis on four economic schools of thought, limits-to-growth, neoclassical, Keynesian, and Schumpeterian, they conclude that the neoclassical idea paradigm that dominated in the 90s and early 2000s has given way to a diversified paradigm since the mid-00s, in which Keynesian and Schumpeterian ideas complement the neoclassical. This thesis hypothesises that this diversified paradigm should not be seen in the evolution of ideas expressed by the WTO Secretariat and adopts a “least-likely”-method to create conditions for drawing generalisable conclusions about the evolution of ideas accounted for by Meckling and Allan. The analysis, however, indicates that a similar evolution has taken place in the WTO Secretariat, which seems to confirm that there has been a general shift in the economic environmental and climate ideas expressed by international organisations. (Less)
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author
Holm, Anna LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVM25 20231
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
WTO, climate, growth, ideas, institutions
language
English
id
9115281
date added to LUP
2023-09-07 16:44:09
date last changed
2023-09-07 16:44:09
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  abstract     = {{The aim of this thesis is to contribute to highlighting how economic environmental and climate ideas are expressed in the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization and to compare this with how they are expressed in other international organisations. In the article The evolution of ideas in global climate policy, Jonas Meckling and Bentley B. Allan map the evolution of economic environmental and climate ideas in six large international organisations. Basing their analysis on four economic schools of thought, limits-to-growth, neoclassical, Keynesian, and Schumpeterian, they conclude that the neoclassical idea paradigm that dominated in the 90s and early 2000s has given way to a diversified paradigm since the mid-00s, in which Keynesian and Schumpeterian ideas complement the neoclassical. This thesis hypothesises that this diversified paradigm should not be seen in the evolution of ideas expressed by the WTO Secretariat and adopts a “least-likely”-method to create conditions for drawing generalisable conclusions about the evolution of ideas accounted for by Meckling and Allan. The analysis, however, indicates that a similar evolution has taken place in the WTO Secretariat, which seems to confirm that there has been a general shift in the economic environmental and climate ideas expressed by international organisations.}},
  author       = {{Holm, Anna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{A diversified idea paradigm? Mapping the evolution of economic environmental and climate ideas in the WTO Secretariat}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}