2001/06/01 by Sharon Beder · 34 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Energy · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Political Influence and Corporate Strategies #Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies #Energy, Environment, Economic Growth #Think tanks #Environmentalism #Free market #Neoliberalism (international relations) #Government (linguistics) #Political economy #Political science #Sociology #Law #Politics
paper · doi:10.1080/714000530
published in Environmental Politics 10(2), 128-133 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2001/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
Corporate-funded think tanks have played a central role in promoting free market environmentalism onto the policy agenda throughout the English speaking world. These think tanks have consistently opposed government regulation and advocated the virtues of a ‘free’ market unconstrained by a burden of red tape. The role of think tanks in the establishment of this ‘neoliberal’ agenda in the US and the UK in recent decades has been well documented.