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This paper examines the relationship between legal policy and the Electric Vehicle market in countries from around the world. As climate change has become an increasingly more important issue in modern society, heavy emphasis has been placed on environmentally conscious alternatives to many things used in daily life. Transportation, one of the largest and most polluting sectors of the economy, has seen many advances towards an eco-friendly future. Electric Vehicles, or EVs, have been lauded as the answer to heavily-polluting Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) by governments around the world. They have dumped large amounts of money in the form of tax breaks and subsidies into the EV sector, but it is unclear if that is really having an effect on the market. This study finds no correlation between the amount of money a government is offering to subsidize the purchase of EVs and the EV market share of the country. While EV law structure varies heavily between countries, the general contribution to the sector by governments is largely the same around the world.

". an den Küsten – liest man – steigt die Flut / Der Sturm ist da, die wilden Meere hupfen / An Land, um dicke Dämme zu zerdrücken" – dieses "Weltende", das Jakob von Hoddis 1911, in der Endzeitstimmung vor Beginn des ersten Weltkrieges, erfühlte, findet knapp neunzig Jahre später eine ganz neue, nicht weniger dramatische Interpretation. "Es ist vermutlich zu spät, um die globale Erwärmung zu verhindern", so vermeldete das Umweltprogramm der Vereinten Nationen im Herbst 1999. So einfach, so knapp lässt sich die kommende Katastrophe des 21. Jahrhunderts umreißen. Wenn die derzeitigen Prognosen eintreffen, wird der Meeresspiegel steigen, werden Klimazonen sich verschieben, wird die Menschheit der Gefahr unvorhersehbarer Risiken eines veränderten und kaum verstandenen Klimasystems ausgesetzt sein (allgemein hierzu Schellnhuber 1998).

THE RECENT SPATE OF CRISES IN EMERGING MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD HAS SHATTERED THE CONSENSUS OVER THE BENEFITS OF UNFETTERED CAPITAL FLOWS AND PROMPTED CALLS FOR A NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE. BUT A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE WORLD'S FINANCIAL WOES SUGGESTS THE NEED FOR SOME COMMONSENSE REPAIRS, NOT A RADICAL RESTRUCTURING.

'Constituting International Political Economy' edited by Kurt Burch and Robert A. Denemark is reviewed.

'Constituting International Political Economy' edited by Kurt Burch and Robert A. Denemark is reviewed.