Books

Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation and Democratisation

Author:

Thomas Marois

Year:

2021

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Number of pages:

320

Available languages:

ISBN:

Online: 9781108989381

Available Formats:

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Media:

North American book launch event

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Abstract

Public banks are banks located within the public sphere of a state. They are pervasive, with more than 900 institutions worldwide, and powerful, with tens of trillions in assets. Public banks are neither essentially good nor bad. Rather, they are dynamic institutions, made and remade by contentious social forces. As the first single-authored book on public banks, this timely intervention examines how these institutions can confront the crisis of climate finance and catalyse a green and just transition. The author explores six case studies across the globe, demonstrating that public banks have acquired the representative structures, financial capacity, institutional knowledge, collaborative networks, and geographical reach to tackle decarbonisation, definancialisation, and democratisation. These institutions are not without contradictions, torn as they are between contending public and private interests in class-divided society. Ultimately, social forces and struggles shape how and if public banks serve the public good.

Chapters

English
Spanish

English

Chapters

Chapter 1: Public ambiguity and the multiple meanings of corporatization - David A. McDonald

Chapter 2: An exceptional electricity company in an atypical social democracy: Costa Rica’s ICE - Daniel Chavez

Chapter 3: Hybrid water governance in Burkina Faso: the ONEA experience - Catherine Baron

Disponible en français : « Corporatisation » dans le secteur de l’eau potable : l’ONEA, une expérience inédite en Afrique de l’Ouest

Chapter 4: An ‘Arab Spring’ for corporatization? Tunisia’s national electricity company (STEG) - Ali Bennasr and Eric Verdeil

Disponible en français : Un printemps arabe pour la corporatisation ? La Société tunisienne de l’électricité et du gaz

Chapter 5: Modernization and the boundaries of public water in Uruguay - Susan Spronk, Carlos Crespo and Marcela Olivera

Chapter 6: Can ‘public’ survive corporatization? The case of TNB in Malaysia - Nepomuceno A. Malaluan

Chapter 7: Quasi-public: water districts in the Philippines - Buenaventura B. Dargantes, Victor G. Chiong, Hedda P. Dargantes and Elsie B. Mira

Chapter 8: Corporatization in the European water sector: lessons for the global South - Emanuele Lobina and David Hall

Chapter 9: Corporatization is dead ... long live corporatization? - David A. McDonald

Spanish

ÍNDICE

Capítulo 1: La ambigüedad de lo público y los numerosos significados de la corporatización (David A. McDonald)

Capítulo 2: Una empresa de electricidad excepcional en una social democracia atípica: el instituto costarricense de electricidad (Daniel Chavez)

Capítulo 3: Gobernabilidad híbrida del agua en Burkina Faso: la experiencia de la ONEA (Catherine Baron)

Capítulo 4: ¿Una primavera árabe para la corporatización? La empresa nacional de electricidad de Túnez (Ali Bennasr y Eric Verdeil)

Capítulo 5: La modernización y los límites del modelo de agua pública en Uruguay (Susan Spronk, Carlos Crespo y Marcela Olivera)

Capítulo 6: ¿Puede lo público sobrevivir a la corporatización? El caso de la TNB en Malasia (Nepomuceno A. Malaluan)

Capítulo 7: Cuasi público: distritos de agua en Filipinas (Buenaventura B. Dargantes,Victor G. Chiong, Hedda P. Dargantes y Elsie B. Mira)

Capítulo 8: Corporatización en el sector del agua en Europa: lecciones para el Sur Global (Emanuele Lobina y David Hall)

Capítulo 9: La corporatización está muerta... ¿larga vida a la corporatización? (David A McDonald)

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