Diversity of capitalisms and environmental institutional arrangements.

Summary This thesis is part of a diachronic and synchronic analysis of the links between forms of capitalism and their environment. The first chapter proposes to highlight the way in which the co-evolution between capitalism and the environment has been able to take place by crossing the theoretical and empirical contributions of the school of regulation with works from the field of environmental history and ecological economics. We show that the different historical forms of capitalism have generated significant and differentiated environmental consequences. Conversely, it turns out that the relationship with the environment has had a primordial influence on the forms of capitalism, notably through the intermediary of environmental institutional arrangements (EIA). The second chapter aims to find out to what extent these devices undergo a process of differentiated adoption according to the contemporary forms of capitalism in which they are embedded. In this respect, a certain correspondence between our typology of national EISs and the typology of capitalisms emerges. Finally, the third chapter focuses on the way in which levels of inequality, largely dependent on the different forms of capitalism, can influence the adoption of EISs. Through an econometric analysis, we attempt to reveal the mechanisms most likely to explain this phenomenon.