TY - CHAP AB - Abstract This article traces the regimes of worth that defined energy for centuries as a productive force of human and animal labor, an understanding that transformed in the 18th century to an “industrial-energy” regime of worth supporting an economy of mass production, consumption, and profit and more recently one centered on market forces and price. Industrial and market energy and the conventions and institutions that support them are currently in a period of discursive and material ferment; they are being challenged by different higher order principles of worth. We discuss eight emergent energy justifications that argue what kind of energy is – and is not – in the best interests of society. VL - 52 SN - 978-1-78714-379-1, 978-1-78714-380-7/0733-558X DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000052006 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20170000052006 AU - Beamish Thomas D. AU - Biggart Nicole Woolsey PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/01/01 TI - Capital and Carbon: The Shifting Common Good Justification of Energy Regimes T2 - Justification, Evaluation and Critique in the Study of Organizations T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 173 EP - 205 Y2 - 2024/04/20 ER -