Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (7)

Authors

Blam, Inna Iu.; Kovalev, Sergei Iu.

Contact information

Blam, Inna Iu.: Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0001-7040-3540; Kovalev, Sergei Iu.: Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ORCID: 0000-0002-7516-5091

Keywords

institutions; institutional capture; environmental protection; energy regulation; oil and gaz

Abstract

Modern economic anthropology literature emphasizes the key role of properly designed socio-economic institutions in the provision of economic growth and explaining human economic behavior. Unfortunately, institutions are prone to be misused, i.e. the real motives behind their formation and patterns of their work quite often have little in common with true meaning of their declared objectives. Recent turbulent history of fundamental socio-economic transformations in Russia provides a multitude of examples of how institutional misuse affects human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. This paper takes a narrowed-down view on this general problem focusing on ecological policy. Environment protection institutions have been casually used by authorities as a tool to achieve goals that have little to do with natural environment protection. Notable examples are the story of legal charges that Russian authorities raised against the Sakhalin Energy accusing it with ecological misconduct, and a more resent case of institutional misuse by successful lobbying of the prohibition of secondary usage of pipes in the Russian oil and gas industry

Pages

912–920

DOI

10.17516/1997-1370-0896

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/145589

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