Michael Jakob is a senior fellow at the Ecologic Institute and a fellow at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany. Jan C. Steckel is head of the Working Group “Climate and Development” at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany, and Chair of Climate- and Development Economics at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) in Cottbus.
"""The Political Economy of Coal is a cogent comparative analysis of coal policies and output trends worldwide, using a comparative statics supply-demand political economy framework. It groups countries into four distinct categories, across which forces driving moves toward or away from coal differ. It illuminates important issues and could point the way toward identifying strategies that internal or external actors could use to reduce coal use and emissions."" Robert O. Keohane, Professor Emeritus, School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton University, USA"