@article{article_1267881, title={GLOBALISATION OF HOMO ECONOMICUS AND PLASTIC BAG REGULATIONS}, journal={Law and Justice Review}, pages={31–50}, year={2023}, author={Özyürek, Mehmet}, keywords={Globalisation, Environmental Law, Neoliberalism, Homo Economicus, Law and Economics}, abstract={Globalisation creates some negative and positive outcomes. Environmental problems that stem from plastic waste can be one of the examples of these negative outcomes. Governments all around the world look for strategies to reduce plastic waste. In this way, neoliberal policies and regulations based upon market actors in reducing the use of plastics can be seen as strategies popularly used by governments. Such policies and regulations are favoured by free-market economists as letting people make their own free choices without any interference by the government. Environmental governance strategies based upon consumer choices can be good examples in this regard. In fact, one of these strategies, plastic bag charges/taxes, has become globalised in recent years. This study specifically explores such regulations evident in steering the individuals’ behaviour by highlighting the concept of homo economicus. Rather than focusing on whether these strategies are efficient or not, the study emphasises that homo economicus oriented plastic bag charges/taxes are away from to target the real cause of the global pollution stemming from use of plastics by criticising the neoliberal philosophy of plastic bag charges/taxes from a normative and qualitative perspective.}, number={25}, publisher={Türkiye Adalet Akademisi}