Neoliberalism and climate policy in the United States : from market fetishism to the developmental state / Robert MacNeil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- US climate policy, neoliberalism & the developmental state -- Conceptualizing neoliberal climate policy in the US -- The developmental state vs. the deregulatory state -- The American developmental state: from confederation to -- Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism and environmental regulation -- The nature and function of US climate policy -- Pull policies: alternative routes to climate regulation -- Push policies: the developmental state and clean energy -- Assessing neoliberal climate policy in the us -- The functionality and sustainability of current US -- Climate policy -- The future of neoliberal climate policy in the US -- Concluding reflections.

"This book analyses the political economy of US climate policy, explaining how the drive to promote accumulation in green markets has been translated under conditions of American neoliberalism, where the state struggles to find a stable and legitimate role in the economy, and where environmental and industrial policy are contentious topics. It conceptualizes US climate policy not as environmental policy (with regulation as its primary objective), but as innovation policy (with capital accumulation and market domination as its main objective). It argues that US climate policy must be understood in the context of the government's broader strategy to dominate and monopolize high-tech markets." -- Provided by publisher.