Constructing Viking Link: How the Infopower of Cost-benefit Analysis as a Calculative Device Reinforces the Energopower of Transmission Infrastructure

This paper sheds light on the performativity of economics in the decision-making process behind Viking Link, a Danish-British interconnector under construction. It shows how energopower, that is, the political power inherent to energy infrastructures, is reinforced through the workings of cost-benef...

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Main Author: Kirsten Sophie Hasberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2020-09-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/9722