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»Nachhaltige Märkte und Staat: Besteuerung, “cap-and-trade”, “payfor-success” und Nudging«. Sustainable markets are heterogeneous phenomena, developed and implemented to keep up the idea of free economic choice against socialist and interventionist forms of environmental or social politics. This article is a plea to understand sustainable markets from the perspective of the state. It presents the history of welfare economics as an ongoing conflict about the question of how to solve the state-versus-market divide. It analyses and compares the welfare tax, the cap-and-trade mechanism, pay-for-success schemes like Social Impact Bonds, and nudging in order to demonstrate their dependence on certain historical state formations, and it links them back to welfare economic struggles between Pigou, Dales, Coase, and Thaler. In doing so it argues for the necessity to bring about the political morality of the microeconomic technicalities of commensuration / commodification. These technicalities organize roles and positions for economic actors and state authorities in very different ways. By applying the analytical concept of the conventions of the state, this article develops a framework to understand the diversity of sustainable state/market co-constructions.
Nachhaltige Märkte und Staat: Besteuerung,“限额与交易”,“成功付费”和“助推”。可持续市场是异质现象,发展和实施是为了维护自由经济选择的观念,反对社会主义和干预主义形式的环境或社会政治。本文旨在从国家的角度来理解可持续市场。它将福利经济学的历史呈现为一场关于如何解决国家与市场鸿沟问题的持续冲突。它分析和比较了福利税、总量控制与交易机制、社会影响债券等成功付费计划和推动,以证明它们对某些历史国家形态的依赖,并将它们与庇古、戴尔斯、科斯和塞勒之间的福利经济斗争联系起来。在这样做的过程中,它论证了为通约化/商品化的微观经济技术细节带来政治道德的必要性。这些技术以非常不同的方式组织经济参与者和国家当局的角色和地位。通过运用国家惯例的分析概念,本文开发了一个框架来理解可持续的国家/市场共同建设的多样性。