This book highlights the interaction between science and politics and between research in economics and European Union policy-making. It focuses on the use of Quantitative tools, Top-down and Bottom-up models in up-stream European decision-making process through five EU policy case studies: energy taxation, climate change, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and internalisation of external costs.
The author reveals how the European Commission grounds part of its legitimacy on the -objectivity of the figures- and on its -technical charisma-. Faced by strong stakeholders, an elected...