Contemporary capitalism is marked by economic, energy, and environmental crises. This article explores the interrelationships between these crises using the example of Australia, one of the world's highest per-capita carbon gas emitters. In this paper, I consider key features, impacts, and state...

This paper argues that neoliberalism’s global restructuring of electricity sectors has failed to deliver its proclaimed objectives and spawned threats to economic growth, financial market stability, environmental degradation, and society’s well-being. Using the case study of Australia, the...

Australia's national electricity market (NEM) is national in name only. It is eight years since the NEM commenced and the objective of a fully competitive market has not been reached. The NEM's structural characteristics, shaped strongly although not exclusively by its evolving regulatory...

The Australian electricity sector has been radically restructured during the last decade. The drivers of this restructuring are sector-specific and public sector policies, and the broader macro policy approach of the Australian state. Using the analytical framework of French régulation theory,...