From the Coal Age to Carbon Democracy: The Co-Evolution of Energy Regimes and Economic Thought
石炭時代から炭素民主主義へ：エネルギー体制と経済思想の共進化 (AI 翻訳)
Burak Baş
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日本語
本稿は、エネルギー資源の物質的・ネットワーク的特性が経済思想と共進化してきたと論じる。石炭、電力、石油、そして炭素時代へと至る各段階で、効率性、希少性、代替可能性、外部性の概念がどう変容したかを、英・米・欧の事例をもとに分析。数量規制（予算・上限）が価格アプローチを上回る条件を明らかにし、スケール→分配→配分の政策順序設計を提唱する。
English
This paper argues that the material and networked properties of energy carriers have co-evolved with economic thought. Using discourse analysis of texts from the UK, US, and Europe across coal, electricity, oil, and carbon eras, it maps shifts in concepts of efficiency, scarcity, substitution, and externalities. It finds that under high uncertainty, quantity instruments (budgets/caps) outperform price-based approaches and proposes sequencing scale-distribution-allocation in policy design.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本ではカーボンバジェットや排出量取引の設計議論が活発化しているが、本稿は量規制と価格規制の歴史的優位性を理論的に裏付ける。SSBJやGXリーグの制度設計において、スケール・分配・配分の順序を意識する際の参考となる。
In the global GX context
Globally, this paper contributes to the ongoing debate between carbon taxes and cap-and-trade, offering historical evidence that quantity-based instruments (caps/budgets) are more effective under high uncertainty. It provides a framework for sequencing climate policy that complements the TCFD/ISSB focus on scenario analysis and transition planning.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Take the historical co-evolution framework to better understand why current carbon pricing debates persist and how policy sequencing theory supports cap-and-trade designs.
🏢実務担当者:Limited direct applicability, but the discussion on instrument choice under uncertainty can inform long-term transition risk assessments in scenario analysis.
🏛政策担当者:Consider the finding that quantity instruments outperform price-based approaches under high uncertainty when designing national carbon budgets or emissions trading systems.
📄 Abstract（原文）
The study argues that the material and networked properties of energy carriers have co-evolved with the language of economics. It periodises the transformations from coal’s debates on stocks and efficiency, through the grid logic of electricity, the oil era’s regime of abundance and stability, and the post-1973 discourse of intensity and conservation, to the atmospheric budgeting of the carbon age. Methodologically, it combines close reading and comparative discourse analysis of disciplinary texts with cross-readings of administrative regulations, engineering reports, and public writing regimes. Through mini-cases on the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe, it maps the shift of efficiency from the machine to system operation and rule design; of scarcity from underground to the atmosphere; of substitution from price signals to infrastructural embeddedness; and of externalities from the local to the global scale. The findings indicate that, under high uncertainty, quantity instruments (budgets/caps) outperform price-based approaches and that effective policy architectures require the sequencing of scale–distribution–allocation. The contribution is to reconstruct the theory–measurement–rule chain by bringing to light the bidirectional processes of translation and circulation between energy regimes and economic thought.
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