Making things the same: Gases, emission rights and the politics of carbon markets

By Donald MacKenzie. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Financialisation of Valuation (2015, background): “This requires a great number of ‘‘investments in form’’ (Thévenot 1984), for instance to achieve commensurability and exchangeability for differing types of emission that all produce greenhouse gases (MacKenzie 2009).”
Toward a different debate in environmental accounting: The cases of carbon and cost–benefit (2009, background): “The original GWP figure for HFC-23 of 11,700 molecules originally put forward by the IPCC in 1995–1996 was revised in 2007 to 14,800, and the error band of this estimate is still an enormous plus or minus 5000 (MacKenzie, 2009, pp. 440–455).”
Automated landlord: Digital technologies and post-crisis financial accumulation (2019, background): “ity, or “making things the same” (MacKenzie, 2009), is at the heart of all financial markets.”
Carbon Trading: Accounting and Reporting Issues (2008, background): “The accounting literature has often argued that some forms of environmental accounting in the contexts of environmental auditing (Power, 1991 ) and carbon markets (MacKenzie, forthcoming ) could result in environmental issues being transformed into an economic and risk-based language and could res”
Economization, part 2: a research programme for the study of markets (2010, methodology): “…performativity programme is to study all the theoretical and practical, expert and lay knowledge, know-how and skills developed and mobilized in the process of designing and managing market STAs (Callon et al., 2007; Kjellberg & Helgesson, 2006; MacKenzie, 2009b; MacKenzie, Muniesa & Siu, 2007).”
Uncertainty Markets and Carbon Markets: Variations on Polanyian Themes (2010, background): “In this way, a ‘thingified’ climate commodity is created whose ‘costeffective’ allocation via pollution rights trading can become a coherent, ‘apolitical’ programme for action (‘cap and trade’), and whose status as asset, grant or financial instrument can be engineered to fit various accounting stan”
Accounting for the environment: Towards a theoretical perspective for environmental accounting and reporting (2010, background): “In carbon accounting, for example, accountants are struggling to make emission rights equivalent (MacKenzie, 2009).”
Uncertainty, Risk, and the Financial Crisis of 2008 (2014, background): “Millo and MacKenzie 2009, 641.”
Accounting, Organizing, and Economizing: Connecting Accounting Research and Organization Theory (2013, neutral): “economic development (Neu, Ocampo Gomez, Graham, & Heincke, 2006, Neu, Siraz Rahaman, Everett, & Akindayomi, 2010), and carbon emission reduction (Mackenzie, 2009) show how accounting for new objects emerges from and defines managerial and political interest.”
Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place (2011, background): “…on a wider interest in the operation of markets for the trade of carbon futures and options (Bailey and Maresh, 2009; Bumpus and Liverman, 2008; MacKenzie, 2009), KnoxHayes (2009) has examined the importance of institutional proximity (understood as shared working practices and business…”